GigaomHadoop maturity summits
Last week’s Hadoop Summit brought announcements that further galvanize Hadoop’s versatility and mainstream status. Read more »
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Last week’s Hadoop Summit brought announcements that further galvanize Hadoop’s versatility and mainstream status. Read more »
The Austrian-German company, which is a finalist in this year’s Structure Launchpad contest, offers technology born out of the frustration of scaling a large social network. 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 »
MariaDB 10 is out, featuring a “Connect engine” that makes it easier to handle data from both traditional SQL databases and more web-scale NoSQL systems. The new functionality merits new editions… Read more »
Enterprises must identify the common features for each IaaS building block and compare them to the services offered by key players in the industry. Read more »
There is a fascinating shift happening right now in the database market from scale-up to scale-out architectures to meet performance demands. Translated, the choice is bigger more expensive boxes versus inexpensive… Read more »
MapR is continuing along its path to Hadoop glory with new support for the YARN resource manager and a direct integration with the HP Vertica analytic database. In such a competitive… Read more »
Splice Machine, a startup promising a SQL-on-Hadoop database that can handle both transactional and analytic workloads, has closed a $15 million series B round of venture capital from InterWest Partners, along… Read more »
Windows Azure is emerging as a credible cloud platform for both startups and enterprises. Here is our analysis of the key factors that turned its fate around, and what it must… 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 »