Microsoft is expanding its Azure platform again, this time rolling out a NoSQL database service as well as a new search tool. It’s the kind of innovation Microsoft needs to focus… Read more »
Splice Machine, a San Francisco-based startup promising to turn HBase into a relational database that can even handle transactional workloads, has added $3 million to its series B round of venture… Read more »
WANdisco, a company specializing in keeping Hadoop and HBase environments running in the case of system failures, has acquired a startup called OhmData that claims to have built a better version… Read more »
Facebook’s decision to include status updates and wall posts in Graph Search could be called great or creepy depending on the user, but it wasn’t an inconsequential decision technologically. In fact,… Read more »
Hadoop startup WibiData has updated Kiji, its open source project that aims to make HBase a better (or easier) database for serving real-time applications. Among the updates in its latest SDK… Read more »
Cloudera will be integrating with the Apache Accumulo database and, according to a press release, “devoting significant internal engineering resources to speed Accumulo’s development.” The National Security Agency created Accumulo and… Read more »
Hadoop startup MapR has released a new version of its commercial HBase database, called M7. According to a press release, “HBase applications can now benefit from MapR’s high performance platform to… Read more »
NGDATA has raised a $3.3. million venture capital round led by Capricorn Venture Partners. The company sells a software product called Lily that stores and indexes wide varieties of customer data… Read more »
DataStax has raised $45 million in series D round to scale its business of selling enterprises on the Cassandra NoSQL database. It might not get all the attention, but Cassandra does… Read more »
A hot startup called Ayasdi has raised a $30.6 million Series B round from IVP, Citi Ventures and GE Ventures for its technology that takes billions of data points and puts… Read more »