EMC/VMware make Pivotal move. Funding for ClearStory. And more

For 451 Research clients: Akiban promises instant insight with operational database for SQL and NoSQL bit.ly/TK1aKc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2012

For 451 clients: Attunity returns to Nasdaq and profitable growth as it expands replication horizons bit.ly/TK1k4o By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2012

EMC and VMware roll Greenplum, Pivotal Labs, vFabric, Cloud Foundry and Cetas into the Pivotal Initiative. bit.ly/11xOegY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2012

HP launches AppSystem for Apache Hadoop bit.ly/UlRx5Z Vertica Analytics Platform 6.1 bit.ly/UlRyqy amongst other things

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2012

ClearStory Data Announces $9m Series A Investment bit.ly/QHguL4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2012

10gen launches MongoDB Cloud Subscriptions, on-demand systems availability from SoftLayer. mwne.ws/Vtmf1o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2012

Official announcement of the MariaDB Foundation bit.ly/11xSjBO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2012

Mike Lynch has set up website to refute HP allegations re: Autonomy bit.ly/QHhiiT Classy. (cc @alanpelzsharpe)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Quantcast launches HDFS alternative. Glassbeam eyes funding. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Quantcast launches open source Hadoop file system alternative bit.ly/Ot6Zz6 Analyst Note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2012

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – rebooted bit.ly/QZGZHP MongoDB accounts for 43% of all mentions of NoSQL projects in LinkedIn profiles

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2012

For 451 clients: Glassbeam eyes series A funding, illuminates roadmap for machine-generated analytics bit.ly/UMaMsz By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

For 451 Research clients: ‘Big data’ and development platform are the next steps for Splunk bit.ly/UMaBgM By Dennis Callaghan

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

View the webinar The Business Advantage of Hadoop: Lessons from the Field bit.ly/QnLqPh w/ @451research, @yp, @blackberry, @mikeolson

— Cloudera (@cloudera) September 26, 2012

Quantcast launches QFS – an open source alternative to HDFS, evolved from Kosmos/CloudStore bit.ly/Sca5CU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

Derrick Harris has more detail on Quantcast’s bigger, faster, stronger Hadoop file system gigaom.com/data/quantcast…

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

Interesting new perspective on bug fix test case brouhaha RT @webmink: Oracle Claims MySQL IS Safe With Them:wmk.me/PpXGvM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

MariaDB directions: multi-source replication & more! blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-direct…

— SkySQL Ab (@skysql) September 28, 2012

Huge news: Basho Japan has officially opened its doors! #Riak basho.com/news/basho_ope…

— Basho Technologies (@basho) September 27, 2012

What no Big Data 2.0? RT @datameer: What is going to replace the “Big Data” buzzword & when? @kdnuggets poll results: bit.ly/UIKBD1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Basho joins CloudStack. Pentaho rides Hadoop wave. And more.

Basho joins Apache CloudStack project -collaborates with Citrix on distributed object storage. bit.ly/Q6RNaP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 5, 2012

MariaDB Galera Cluster is here: j.mp/Q2VQ3K #synchronous #multimaster #scalability

— MariaDB (@mariadb) September 4, 2012

A new post from me on Hadapt’s blog about some new HDFS —> relational invisible loading technology. hadapt.com/blog/2012/9/5/… #bigdata #hadoop

— Daniel Abadi (@daniel_abadi) September 5, 2012

More than 70% of new Pentaho customers in Q2 are deploying on Hadoop. bit.ly/Q6Scde The rest split between RDBMS and NoSQL.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 5, 2012

What Do Real-Life Hadoop Workloads Look Like? bit.ly/Q4VzNS

— Cloudera (@cloudera) September 5, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Facebook’s Prism. CAP Theorem. Keeping MySQL open. And more.

Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ bit.ly/NKAITF Cross-data centre Hadoop clustering.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 24, 2012

CAP Theorem: two out of three ain’t right. bit.ly/sdnY3T updated

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 24, 2012

SkySQL and MariaDB Working Together to Keep MySQL an Open Ecosystem bit.ly/QxrS66

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 24, 2012

AbsolutData Raises $20M from Fidelity Growth Partners India bit.ly/QxrODn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 24, 2012

Nutanix Complete Cluster Brings SAN-Free Virtualization to Hadoop mwne.ws/QxrSTD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 24, 2012

Updates for Percona Server, the Enhanced Drop-in Replacement for MySQL, Released mwne.ws/QxrTHg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 24, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Thoughts on Splunk’s IPO and DynamoDB. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* Thoughts on the Splunk IPO and S-1 By Dave Kellogg.

* Thoughts on SimpleDB, DynamoDB and Cassandra By Adrian Cockcroft.

* Recommind’s Revenue Leaps 95% in Record-Setting 2011 Predictable.

* Hewlett-Packard Expands to Cambridge via Vertica’s “Big Data” Center Moving.

* Announcing SkySQL Enterprise HA for the MariaDB & MySQL databases

* Membase Server is Now Couchbase Server But not *the* Couchbase Server.

* Cloudera Teams With O’Reilly Media to Merge Hadoop World and Strata Conferences

* Survey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with data 100 Strata Online Conference attendees.

* Big data market survey: Hadoop solutions

* LinkedIn released SenseiDB, an open source distributed, realtime, semi-structured database.

* For 451 Research clients

# VMware: not your father’s database company Impact Report

# Sparsity Technologies draws up plans for graph database adoption Impact Report

# Amazon launches DynamoDB, an auto-configuring database as a service Market Development report

# NuoDB targets Q2 release for elastic relational database Market Development report

# ADVIZOR illuminates growth strategy, roadmap in data discovery and analysis Market Development report

# Birst adds own analytic engine for BI, OEM agreement with ParAccel Market Development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: RentAGrandma.com Recruiting Wonderful Grandmas

And that’s the Data Day, today.