Tag: OSS
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How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi’s operating system
How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi’s operating system:
When you buy a Raspberry Pi, the $35 computer doesn’t come with an operating system. Loading your operating system of choice onto an SD card and then booting the Pi turns out to be pretty easy.… Continued
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Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database
Open Source HANA, anybody?
Metamarkets provides a data analytics service that offers real-time analytics, visualizations and other products. Metamarkets Co-Founder and CEO Mike Driscoll said it made sense to open source Druid, because the world needs an open source in-memory database.… Continued
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Necessity is the mother of NoSQL
The 451 group’s Matt Aslett argues that Necessity is the mother of NoSQL.
Necessity is particularly relevant when looking at the history of the NoSQL databases. While it is easy for the incumbent database vendor to dismiss the various NoSQL projects as development playthings, it is clear that the vast majority of NoSQL projects were developed by companies and individuals in response to the fact that the existing database products and vendors were not suitable to meet their requirements with regards to the other five factors: scalability, performance, relaxed consistency, agility and intricacy.… Continued