Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called AirpalĀ that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built… Read more »
DataStax, the rising NoSQL database vendor that hawks a commercial version of the open-source Apache Cassandra distributed database, plans to announce on Tuesday that it has acquired graph-database specialist Aurelius, which… Read more »
Led by a husband and wife team, and two former Facebook engineers, Interana thinks it can make any company do analytics just like the big web companies. Its software is designed… Read more »
Large web companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundaries of IT for years, and now their problems — and solutions — are making their ways into… Read more »
The name pretty much says it all: WebScaleSQL. That’s the new open source project Facebook announced on Thursday, which includes early contributions from other web giants that have pushed MySQL to… Read more »
Michael Stonebraker has helped create a lot of database systems and has lots of thoughts about where the industry is headed. Oracle, SAP, NoSQL, NewSQL — they all have a place… Read more »
Facebook has open sourced a new embedded database called RocksDB that’s meant to take advantage of all the performance flash has to offer, from right on the application server. It might… Read more »
Facebook has open sourced Presto, a SQL engine it says is on average 10 times faster than Hive for running queries across large data sets stored in Hadoop and elsewhere. Read more »
Facebook has one of the largest, if not the largest, MySQL installations in the world, and has created a tool to keep that system online with as little human intervention as… Read more »