Tag: RDBMS
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How will the DB incumbents respond to NoSQL and NewSQL?
The 451 Group recently released a report about “How will the database incumbents respond to NoSQL and NewSQL?” Unfortunately it’s only available to their subscribers, so I can’t get the details… anyway – they followed up with a blog post What we talk about when we talk about NewSQL, which includes a pretty complete list of companies and technologies that we have to watch outside the established RDBMS vendors.… Continued
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MySQL pre-releases integrated Memcached
MySQL just announced a pre-release snapshot which comes with an integrated Memcached plugin accessing the InnoDB storage engine directly: NoSQL to InnoDB with Memcached
The ever-increasing performance demands of web-based services have generated significant interest in providing NoSQL access methods to MySQL.… Continued
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Exadata Performance Architect moving to EMC’s Greenplum
Now that’s a thing: Kevin Closson Joins EMC Data Computing Division To Focus On Greenplum Performance Engineering! Kevin’s been the public voice of Exadata in the blogosphere for much of four years, so that’s quite a loss for the folks at Oracle.… Continued
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Intel’s McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings
Intel’s McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings. That’s not surprising, given that Sentrigo has the best product in that space. Oracle already acquired Secerno last year, so other vendors now have to build their portfolio.… Continued
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Comparing SQL Server with SQL Azure
A good one, if you want to make your application future proof, as MS is working hard to bring stand-alone SQL Server in line with SQL Azure for future releases, and therefore is giving up on some of the concepts available in SQL Server today:
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EDW Without A Database?
Forrester’s James Kobelius asks: An Enterprise Data Warehouse Without A Database—Is That Even Conceivable? Turns out the discussion is more around RDBMS vs. non-relational DBMS such as Hadoop, and he’s suggesting that we’ll see a rise of non-relational systems because of the rise of less structured content.… Continued
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Oracle 11g Interactive Quick Reference
Oracle took the popular DBA Views poster and now provide a Flash based digital version for download at Oracle 11g Interactive Quick Reference. I’m not sure how helpful that’s ultimately going to be as it doesn’t allow for the same kind of visual browsing, but wanted to post this anyway.… Continued
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Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Cassandra’s Jonathan Ellis
The Windows Azure blog has a long and good interview with Jonathan Ellis about Cassandra and a lot of other relevant topics. Take a break to read Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Jonathan Ellis, Co-Founder of Riptano. When asked about Cassandra vs.… Continued
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NoSQL Primer for RDBMS folks
Chen Shapira apparently went through a similar information gathering and facts finding exercise as I did with NoSQL, but she’s much better at writing it up all in this concise and complete article NoSQL Deep Dive – The Missing White Paper.… Continued