Druid, an open source database designed for real-time analysis, is moving to the Apache 2 software license in order to hopefully spur more use of and innovation around the project. It was… Read more »
When you hear from SAP these days, the software giant always leads with HANA, its in-memory database. HANA is to SAP what Watson is to IBM — proof that just because a… Read more »
EMC President Jeremy Burton came on the Structure Show podcast this week to talk about the company’s current plan to deliver hybrid cloud-storage systems and its future plan to provide the… Read more »
The storage giant has some secrets up its sleeve including how its acquisition of the Andy Becholsheim-backed DSSD startup will help fire up high-performance next-gen apps. Read more »
EMC-VMware spinoff Pivotal is putting its money behind Tachyon, an in-memory distributed file system developed by the same research lab that created Apache Spark. The goal is to improve the company’s… Read more »
Oracle’s annual conference will be the first without Larry Ellison as CEO; it’s going to be fascinating to watch whether or not Oracle’s cloud announcements will make an impact in an… Read more »
As the scale of OLTP transactions skyrockets, disk-based databases are unable to keep up with demand. Here’s a look at the problem and how in-memory databases can address it. A new… Read more »
Aerospike, a NoSQL startup that has garnered a fair number of advertising industry customers thanks to its in-memory technology, has raised $20 million in a series C round and is open… Read more »
Plummeting RAM prices and the massive throughput requirements of big data make in-memory databases incredibly attractive. Processing enormous data sets in a fraction of the time it normally takes sounds like… Read more »
For IT decision-makers and architects, there is enough inexpensive memory capacity on mainstream servers for SQL DBMSs to be optimized around the speed of in-memory data rather than the performance constraints… Read more »