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 »
The social network giant’s new database management system will supposedly improve reliability and cut down on the downtime that occurs when a region server fails. Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, Sqrrl’s Ely Khan talks about the big data analytics and privacy dilemma faced by three-letter agencies and Fortune 100 companies alike. 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 »
Slower and less-hyped growth occurred in the cloud computing marketplace in the third quarter, including noticeably less news coming from cloud computing providers. 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 »