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.
April 26th, 2013 — Data management
Pivotal launches. SkySQL and Mony Program merge. And much, much more
April 19th, 2013 — Data management
‘Information governance’ in the era of big data. MariaDB Foundation takes next steps. And more.
And that’s the data day, today.
April 15th, 2013 — Data management
I’ll be on a whistle-stop tour of California next week, including two presentations at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo.
On day one at 1:20pm I’ll be presenting CAP Theorem: Two out of three ain’t right, in which I will be challenging the popular ‘two out of three’ explanation of CAP Theorem, examining the evidence from a variety of experts, including Dr Eric Brewer.
Then on day three at 9:00am I’m very honoured to be providing a keynote presentation, The State of the MySQL Ecosystem.
Here’s an overview of the presentation:
It is now over three years since Oracle acquired MySQL along with Sun Microsystems. Fears for the open source database’s survival appear to have been misplaced as Oracle has increased investment in MySQL development. At the same time, a thriving ecosystem of potential alternatives and complementary products has emerged to provide MySQL users with greater choice in terms of both functionality and support. As a result of that choice, we are seeing the increasing independence of the ecosystem of MySQL-related products and services from MySQL itself – both in terms of a commercial product, and also a development project. The continued maturity of vendors such as Percona and SkySQL, as well as the formation of the MariaDB Foundation, has the potential to accelerate that trend. The MySQL ecosystem is far from fragmenting, but 451 Research’s updated survey of database users indicates that the center of gravity has begun to shift towards an increased state of independence.
Beyond our own presentations of course there is a huge number of presentations of interest during the event from both users and vendors, and I’m looking forward to attending as well as presenting.
If you haven’t already registered you can do so now and get 15% off by using the code “SpeakMySQL” at checkout. Register here.
March 5th, 2013 — Data management
SQL and Hadoop: ascloseasthis. Splunk revenue up 64%. and more.
And that’s the data day, today.
February 4th, 2013 — Data management
Fedora confirms MariaDB plans. IBM acquires Star Analytics. And more
And that’s the data day. today.
January 30th, 2013 — Data management
Actian acquires Pervasive. ObjectRocket has liftoff. And more.
And that’s the data day. today.
January 28th, 2013 — Data management
Informatica’s revenue is in. Hortonworks joins OpenStack. And more.
And that’s the Data Day, today.
January 23rd, 2013 — Data management
We are very honoured to have been asked to give a “state of the MySQL” keynote presentation at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in April.
While this will not be in any way an official “state of the dolphin” presentation, I think it is fitting given the expansion of the MySQL ecosystem that the Percona Live event includes an independent perspective on the state of MySQL. The full title of the presentation – MySQL, YourSQL, NoSQL, NewSQL – the state of the MySQL ecosystem – reflects that.
We want to present an independent perspective on the health of the MySQL ecosystem in 2013, drawing on our research and analysis, as well as the views of the participants in that ecosystem.
You have a chance to directly influence the content of the presentation by taking part in our 2013 Database survey.
The aim of this survey is to identify trends in database usage, as well as changing attitudes to MySQL following its acquisition by Oracle, and the competitive dynamic between MySQL and other databases, including NoSQL and NewSQL technologies, as well as MariaDB, Percona Server and other MySQL variants.
There are just 15 questions to answer, spread over five pages, and the entire survey should take less than ten minutes to complete.
All individual responses are of course confidential. The results will be published as part of a major research report due during Q2.
The full report will be available to 451 Research clients, while the results of the survey will also be made freely available via the keynote presentation.
Thanks in advance for your participation. We’re looking forward to analyzing and presenting the results. Once again, you can find the the survey at http://bit.ly/451db13
January 10th, 2013 — Data management
451 Research’s 2013 Database survey is now live at http://bit.ly/451db13 investigating the current use of database technologies, including MySQL, NoSQL and NewSQL, as well as traditional relation and non-relational databases.
The aim of this survey is to identify trends in database usage, as well as changing attitudes to MySQL following its acquisition by Oracle, and the competitive dynamic between MySQL and other databases, including NoSQL and NewSQL technologies.
There are just 15 questions to answer, spread over five pages, and the entire survey should take less than ten minutes to complete.
All individual responses are of course confidential. The results will be published as part of a major research report due during Q2.
The full report will be available to 451 Research clients, while the results of the survey will also be made freely available via a
presentation at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in April.
Last year’s results have been viewed nearly 55,000 times on SlideShare so we are hoping for a good response to this year’s survey.
One of the most interesting aspects of a 2012 survey results was the extent to which MySQL users were testing and adopting PostgreSQL. Will that trend continue or accelerate in 2013? And what of the adoption of cloud-based database services such as Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL?
Are the new breed of NewSQL vendors having any impact on the relational database incumbents such as Oracle, Microsoft and IBM? And how is SAP HANA adoption driving interest in other in-memory databases such as VoltDB and MemSQL?
We will also be interested to see how well NoSQL databases fair in this year’s survey results. Last year MongoDB was the most popular, followed by Apache Cassandra/DataStax and Redis. Are these now making a bigger impact on the wider market, and what of Basho’s Riak, CouchDB, Neo4j, Couchbase et al?
Additionally, we have been tracking attitudes to Oracle’s ownership of MySQL since the deal to acquire Sun was announced. Have MySQL users’ attitudes towards Oracle improved or declined in the last 12 months, and what impact will the formation of the MariaDB Foundation have on MariaDB adoption?
We’re looking forward to analyzing the results and providing answers to these and other questions. Please help us to get the most representative result set by taking part in the survey at http://bit.ly/451db13
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