July 19th, 2013 — Data management
On July 23 at 10:00am PDT, I’ll be taking part in a webinar in association with MemSQL in the subject of building a next generation analytic platform.
To compete in the modern marketplace, your organization must be data-driven. But with the sheer number of data management and analytic technologies appearing on the market, it is difficult to map your needs to the appropriate solutions. One thing is clear – your data warehouse and Hadoop cluster do not suffice for real-time analytics.
In this webinar I’ll be joined by Mark Horton, director of product marketing for MemSQL, to discuss key criteria you should consider when building a next-generation analytic platform. Topics to be covered include:
- Flexibility and incremental scale-out to size your platform according to your volume and performance needs.
- Agile responsiveness to act on changes to your business environment faster than traditional data warehouses allowed.
- Integration with existing tools to leverage previous investments in your next-generation analytic environment.
Attendees will be offered a free 30-day trial of MemSQL’s real-time analytics platform and special one-year introductory pricing if they purchase MemSQL at the end of the trial.
For full details and to register, click here.
July 17th, 2013 — Data management
FoundationDB acquires Akiban. Cloudera acquihires Myrrix. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
July 10th, 2013 — Data management
Oracle launches Database 12c. Predixion raises $20m. And more.
And that’s the data day, today.
July 9th, 2013 — Data management
On Wednesday, July 17, at 11:00am ET / 8:00am PT, I’ll be taking part in a webinar in association with MarkLogic on the subject of Hadoop.
As we’ve stated a few times, we believe that the flexibility of Apache Hadoop is one of its biggest assets – enabling organizations to generate value from data that was previously considered too expensive to be stored and processed in traditional databases – but it also results in “Hadoop” meaning different things to different people.
The result is that organizations still struggle over which Hadoop ecosystem components to adopt in order to obtain the greatest value, which application workloads might be suitable for deployment on Hadoop, and how to deploy Hadoop in conjunction with existing relational and non-relational databases.
On the webinar I’ll be providing an overview of the current state of the Hadoop ecosystem, geographic adoption, use cases, while MarkLogic’s Director of Product Management Justin Makeig to will provide an introduction to complementary technology from MarkLogic that can help your organization achieve real-time analysis, transactional data updates, integrity, granular security, and full-text search.
For full details, and to register, click here.
July 1st, 2013 — Data management
Four quarters have now passed since we rebooted our NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index, based on the number of LinkedIn member profiles mentioning each of the NoSQL projects, giving us a good view of the relative growth of the various NoSQL databases in the past year.
A few interesting statistics to pick out: Cassandra has jumped ahead of Redis for second place, while outside the top ten, shown here, OrientDB climbed above Hypertable and DEX climbed above InfiniteGraph. Looking ahead, expect Riak to overtake MarkLogic in the next three months.
DynamoDB saw the greatest increase in terms of the number of mentions in LinkedIn profiles in the past three months, although it remains in 10th position. In terms of growth, DynamoDB was followed by OrientDB, Neo4j, Apache Accumulo and DEX.
However, MongoDB once again extended its lead as the most popular NoSQL database, according to LinkedIn profile mentions. As the chart below illustrates, it now accounts for 47% of all mentions of NoSQL technologies in LinkedIn profiles, according to our sample, compared with 46% in March.
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.
Another significant data source that can provide a different perspective on the NoSQL market is our market-sizing revenue estimate. Stand-by for an update on our sizing estimates for the NoSQL, NewSQL, MySQL and DBaaS sectors in the coming weeks.
June 28th, 2013 — Data management
Hortonworks raises $50m, previews next-generation Hadoop. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
June 25th, 2013 — Data management
A bumper round-up of the past 14 days’ data-related news
* Cisco announced its intention to acquire Composite Software.
* Software AG acquired Apama.
* TIBCO Software acquired StreamBase Systems.
* Cloudera appointed Tom Reilly as Chief Executive Officer and Mike Olson as Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of the Board.
* Sears Holdings named Jeff Balagna Chief Executive Officer of MetaScale
* Ex-Yahoo CTO launched Altiscale, hardcore Hadoop as a service.
* SpaceCurve raised a $10M Series B round of financing.
* Sqrrl announced general availability of Sqrrl Enterprise.
* GE launched Predictivity services, supported by supported by Proficy Historian HD.
* Datameer announced Datameer 3.0.
* Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3.
* MemSQL announced the upcoming availability of MemSQL 2.1.
* Continuuity announced the release of Weave, a new open source project that enables Java developers to rapidly build scalable, distributed applications on YARN.
* RainStor adds security, text search features to database complement for Hadoop.
* Composite Software introduced version 6.2 SP3 of its Composite Data Virtualization Platform
* TokuDB launched TokuMX.
* Terracotta announced the immediate availability of Terracotta Universal Messaging.
* HP united its data management assets under HAVEn brand.
* Hortonworks and Red Hat announced an engineering collaboration around Hadoop.
* Rackspace Hosting’s ObjectRocket Database as a Service entered into a strategic agreement with 10gen.
* Simon Phipps posted State Of The Sea Lion – June 2013.
* Netflix announced that its Genie Hadoop-aaS management software is now open source
* Storm-YARN released as open source.
* Big Data arrived at the Oxford English Dictionary
And that’s the data day, today.
June 10th, 2013 — Data management
Beyond Hadoop. IBM embraces MongoDB. And more.
And that’s the data day, today.
June 10th, 2013 — Data management
I am planning on doing a major overhaul of this during the second half of the year, with a specific focus on the Hadoop sector, but in the interim, here’s the latest June 2013 update to our Database Landscape map.
Note: the latest update to the map is available here.
June 5th, 2013 — Data management
Micrososft previews SQL Server 2014. Cloudera targets legacy data management vendors. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
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