Microsoft continues to fill in the check boxes for its Azure cloud. Example: Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s take on NoSQL databases a la Couch or MongoDB, will be generally available April 8,… Read more »
Early adopters of the data lake are integrating Hadoop into current workflows and addressing challenges around the cleanliness, validity, and protection of their data. Read more »
Sqrrl, the big data startup whose founders used to work for the NSA, plans to announce Thursday that it is shifting its focus to cyber security with a new release of… 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 »
Neo Technology, the creator of the Neo4j graph database, has brought in $20 million in series C money, signaling that we are indeed seeing the rise of graph analysis in big data… Read more »
Basho, the company behind the Riak key-value database and Riak CS cloud-storage system, has raised a $25 million series G round of venture capital led by Georgetown Partners. The company has… Read more »
According to MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria, it was unsolicited demand from investors that drove much of the company’s recent $80 million investment round, news of which broke on Friday afternoon. In an interview with Gigaom, Ittycheria… Read more »
NoSQL startup MongoDB is aiming to raise $100 million and has already taken in $79.9 million, according to a SEC document that the company filed this week and has confirmed to… Read more »