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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Apache Spark, an in-memory data-processing framework, is now a top-level Apache project. That’s an important step for Spark’s stability as it increasingly replaces MapReduce in next-generation big data applications. Read more »
NoSQL startup DataStax announced on Wednesday that it has added an in-memory option to its commercial version of the Cassandra key-value database. Cassandra is seeing an uptick in adoption right now… Read more »
MemSQL, the database startup from two former Facebook engineers, has already raised a lot of money and roped in some big customers. Now it’s looking to broaden its footprint with a… Read more »
A pair of MIT graduate students is working on an interesting system they think can help speed the process of analyzing data without putting it on expensive DRAM. The project uses… Read more »
Database startup MemSQL has been on fire since it launched in mid-2012, and now it has a lot more money to keep up that momentum. The company has closed an oversubscribed… 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 »