The Data Day, A few days: November 18-26 2014

November 26th, 2014 — Data management

MarkLogic updates Enterprise NoSQL. And more

And that’s the data day, today.

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Updated Data Platforms Landscape Map – October 2014

November 18th, 2014 — Data management

It has been some time since we updated our Data Platforms Landscape Map, and the map has been through something of an overhaul. It may not be obvious at first glance but we have completely reviewed all areas of the map, leading to some positional changes to better reflect the current state of the market.

The images below do not do the map justice of course. The full version of the October 2014 Data Platforms Landscape Map is freely available to download from the 451 Research site.

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In particular we have added a grid to the map itself, as well as an associated index, making it considerably easier to identify specific data platforms.

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The October 2014 Data Platforms Landscape Map is designed to help you navigate the complex array of current data platform providers.

You can use it to…

  • compare capabilities, offerings, and functionality.
  • understand where providers intersect and diverge.
  • identify shortlists of choices to suit enterprise needs.

The images above do not do the map justice of course. The full version of the October 2014 Data Platforms Landscape Map is freely available to download from the 451 Research site.

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The Data Day, A few days: November 8-17 2014

November 17th, 2014 — Data management

Hortonworks files S-1, AWS introduces Aurora. And more

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: November 1-7 2014

November 7th, 2014 — Data management

Paxata refreshes data preparation service. And more.

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: October 18 – October 31 2014

October 31st, 2014 — Data management

VMware acquires Continuent. IBM launches dashDB. And more.

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: October 11 – October 17 2014

October 17th, 2014 — Data management

Insanely large Strata-Hadoop World edition

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: October 7 – October 10 2014

October 10th, 2014 — Data management

Teradata and Cloudera strengthen partnership. And more.

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: September 27- October 6 2014

October 6th, 2014 — Data management

TIBCO acquired by Vista Equity Partners. And more.

And that’s the data day, today.

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NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – September 2014

October 1st, 2014 — Data management

Time for a new look for our NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index, which tracks mentions of NoSQL database in LinkedIn member profiles, as it enters its third year. We’ve switched from a bar chart to a line chart to reduce clutter – at least on the horizontal plane.

Unfortunately the dominance of MongoDB means that the chart is inevitably cluttered on the low end of the vertical plane, but the line chart at least provides a clear illustration of that dominance.

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There are a few other changes of note further down the list, with FoundationDB gaining a place on Sparksee (as predicted) thanks to it having the fastest rate of growth (40.74%) in Q3. ArangoDB also gained a place on InfiniteGraph thanks to recording the second fastest growth rate (37.84%).

We noted last time that Q3 could see OrientDB overtake Aerospike, unless the release of Aerospike as open source had an immediate impact on interest levels. That seems to have occurred, with Aerospike recording 23.80% growth to not only hold off OrientDB but gain ground on Voldemort, which looks likely to be overtaken by both Aerospike and OrientDB in Q4. Inside the top 10 there is also a chance that DynamoDB could overtake MarkLogic in Q4.

Titan (25.97%), RethinkDB (22.88%) and DynamoDB (22.85%) also deserve a mention in terms of growth in Q3, while Neo4j was the fastest growing of the top 10 with 17.99%. MongoDB was of course most popular NoSQL database by a considerable margin, once again accounting for 49% of all LinkedIn member profiles mentioning a NoSQL project.

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Of course, we would also note that this is not meant to be a comprehensive analysis, but rather a snapshot of one particular data source.

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Crunch time? The future of the data platform landscape

September 29th, 2014 — Data management

Things change slowly in the data platform market. Even the expansion of the number of vendors driven by NoSQL, NewSQL, Hadoop and DBaaS – which some have compared to a cambrian explosion – has occurred over the best part of a decade. While the timeframe is of course much shorter, the evolution of the database market could perhaps better be compared to the expansion of the universe following the big bang.

The number of vendors has increased significantly but the impact on the established database vendors has, so far, been negligible in terms of revenue and market share. While the upstarts are growing faster, the established giants also continue to expand – both organically and through acquisition. Plus ça change.

The database market is undeniably over-crowded – unsustainably so. Inevitably many of the data platforms startups that have emerged in recent years will not survive. While some have predicted a coming extinction event to redress the balance the truth is that even when database vendors disappear they rarely do so in dramatic fashion. The demise is more often slow and protracted, as executives tend to double-down on proven revenue streams and reposition from niche to smaller niche before finally either selling out for peanuts or throwing in the towel.

One of the theories about the fate of the universe suggests the expansion will eventually slow and the universe will begin to contract in a “big crunch”. As far as the data platforms market is concerned I believe we have already seen the rate of growth begin to slow. Rather than a mass extinction event, it seems more likely we will see a slow big crunch style contraction. It won’t be dramatic, but then the data platforms market rarely is.

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