It started off as a hobby project, before its team realized it was being used — in unexpected ways — by the likes of Bank of America. Now RhodeCode wants to… Read more »
MariaDB users can now take advantage of the “atomic writes” feature on Fusion-io drives, which aims to boost database performance while extending the life of the flash drive. Read more »
Like every social media company, Pinterest had to build its own graph in order to keep track of how all its users — and their interests — are related. Here’s how… Read more »
The backend for cloud storage startup Box is pretty straightforward at the moment, said the company’s VP of engineering. But it’s considering a shift to some next-generation approaches. Read more »
MySQL and MariaDB services company SkySQL has brought Monty Widenius and other MariaDB players on board. The result, says CEO Patrik Sallner, will be “a new form of database platform that… Read more »
Gravity CTO Jim Benedetto knows his way around MySQL after managing a 600-instance cluster at MySpace, but he has found HBase religion as his real-time content-recommendation platform grew. And he’s not… Read more »
A startup called ParElastic thinks it can change the cloud database game by helping companies scale their MySQL environments without resorting to sharding or deploying an entirely new database. Read more »
Facebook has built a new open source tool for benchmarking graph databases, called LinkBench. And although the chances are your infrastructure and workloads look nothing like Facebook’s, the good news is… Read more »
Companies are rushing to embrace the promise of big data to understand both their businesses and the ways in which customers interact with them. But effective data-based decisions are not made… Read more »