The Data Day: May 27, 2021

May 27th, 2021 — Data management

What is MLOps? What if source-available software licenses are open enough? Ten years of NewSQL. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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The Data Day: August 30, 2016

August 30th, 2016 — Data management

What happened in data and analytics this week will astound you

For 451 Research clients: NewSQL databases: a definitive guide http://bit.ly/2c7wJPu

For 451 Research clients: With Atlas, MongoDB jumps into hosted NoSQL DBaaS waters http://bit.ly/2c7wXq4 By Jim Curtis

For 451 Research clients: DataStax rolls graph into DSE 5.0, highlights NoSQL multi-models http://bit.ly/2bOKF2I By Jim Curtis

For 451 Research clients: Looker illuminates its analytics business and platform strategy http://bit.ly/2c7z396 By Krishna Roy

For 451 Research clients: Arcadia looks to simplify security for Hadoop analysis, lands Rackspace as reseller http://bit.ly/2c7wwvZ By Krishna Roy

For 451 Research clients: With $30m in funding, Vena looks to expand its cloud service to an enterprise platform http://bit.ly/2c7x3Oq By Krishna Roy

For 451 Research clients: Stitch emerges from RJMetrics with ETL as a service following cloud BI sale http://bit.ly/2c7wW5m

For 451 Research clients: CMC Markets sees promising self-service results with new ‘Google-like’ BI tool http://bit.ly/2c7xPuK By Jason Stamper

Tableau appointed Adam Selipsky as new CEO http://tabsoft.co/2bONxN1

Splunk reported a net loss of $86.6m on Q2 revenue up 43% to $212.8m http://splk.it/2bON1P5

Salesforce signs agreement to acquire BeyondCore http://bit.ly/2bOOZPK

Magnitude Software acquired Simba Technologies http://mwne.ws/2bONqRI

SAP is reportedly acquiring Altiscale for over $125m http://bit.ly/2bON8dE

Syncsort acquires Cogito to enhance mainframe data access http://prn.to/2c7ynRb

Galactic Exchange closes seed financing round http://bit.ly/2bOMxZw

Teradata makes Aster Analytics available on Hadoop and Teradata Aster Analytics on Amazon Web Services http://prn.to/2c7y5Kh

JSON support is generally available in Azure SQL Database http://bit.ly/2c7xVT9

Red Hat launches Red Hat Virtualization 4 http://red.ht/2bOMJb0

SnapLogic launches Summer 2016 release of its SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform http://bit.ly/2bOOmpq

AWS releases Amazon Kinesis Analytics http://bit.ly/2bOOwNd

AWS licenses SQLstream technology for Amazon Kinesis Analytics service http://bit.ly/2c7CZaa

Percona delivers open source in-Memory storage engine for Percona Server for MongoDB http://bit.ly/2bOPIjH

Riversand launches MDMCenter v7.8 http://bit.ly/2c7zDUl

WANdisco announces the release of WANdisco Fusion 2.9 http://bit.ly/2bOOapU

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: January 2-9 2015

January 9th, 2015 — Data management

GraphLab changes name to Dato, raises $18.5m. And more

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: August 1-7 2013

August 7th, 2013 — Data management

MySQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, DBaaS market sizing. And more

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Sizing the opportunities for MySQL, NoSQL, NewSQL and DBaaS

August 5th, 2013 — Data management

451 Research has recently published an update to our market sizing estimates for the MySQL ecosystem, NoSQL and NewSQL sectors, adding coverage of the database-as-a-service market.

The report, Next-Generation Operational Databases: 2012-2016, can be found here and provides estimates for the size of the aggregate market and each market sector, as well as competitive landscape maps. It also includes a growth forecast for each sector, and highlights the opportunities and threats facing participating vendors.

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The key findings are also available in the a short, free presentation (registration required), which can be found here, and provides details of how the MySQL, NoSQL and DBaaS sectors are each expected to grow to generate revenue in excess of $1bn by 2016.

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The Data Day, A few days: July 24-31 2013

July 31st, 2013 — Data management

Next-Gen DB market sizing. Total Data Integration. And more.

And that’s the data day, today.

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Forthcoming webinar: The New Path to Performance. No Sharding!

March 19th, 2013 — Data management

On Tuesday March 26th at 10am PT I’ll be taking part in a webinar with NuoDB on the subject of The New Path to Performance. No Sharding!

As part of the webinar I’ll be explaining the various strategies used by enterprises to attempt to achieve scalability of relational databases, why they fail to meet modern distributed processing requirements, and why companies are increasingly open to looking at alternatives to the traditional relational database.

Wiqar Chaudry from NuoDB will also be discussing how to eliminate technical acrobatics, including:

Sharding
Clustering
Performance tuning
Replication
And other kinds of 20th century database tricks.

To register, click http://go.nuodb.com/no-sharding-webinar-register-s.html

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Forthcoming webinar: How to Take Advantage of NewSQL in the Cloud

February 11th, 2013 — Data management

On February 21, at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST, I’ll be taking part in a webinar – How to Take Advantage of NewSQL in the Cloud – in conjunction with Clustrix.

In this free webinar I, along with Mark Sarbiewski, Clustrix CMO, will discuss:

  • The current cloud database inflection point – and how that affects you and your company
  • How to migrate your SQL database to the cloud
  • How to get effortless scale from your database in public or private clouds
  • How to ensure database availability in the cloud for business critical applications

For full details and registration, click here.

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Neither fish nor fowl: the rise of multi-model databases

February 8th, 2013 — Data management

One of the most complicated aspects of putting together our database landscape map was dealing with the growing number of (particularly NoSQL) databases that refuse to be pigeon-holed in any of the primary databases categories.

I have begun to refer to these as “multi-model databases” in recognition of the fact that they are able to take on the characteristics of multiple databases. In truth though there are probably two different groups of products that could be considered “multi-model”:

True multi-model databases that have been designed specifically to serve multiple data models and use-cases

Examples include:
FoundationDB, which is being designed to support ACID and NoSQL, but more to the point in this instance, multiple layers including key-value, document, and object layers

Aerospike, which is planning to combine SQL, key value, and document and graph database technologies in a single database by bringing together its Citrusleaf NoSQL database with the acquired AlchemyDB NewSQL project

OrientDB, which is, at heart, a document database, but can also be used as a graph database; as an object database, making use of the Java persistence API; and as a hybrid database, taking advantage of multiple models to serve different application requirements

ArangoDB, which promises to deliver the benefits of key value and document and graph stores in a single database

Other products that could be considered true multi-model databases are:
Couchbase Server 2.0, which can be used as both a document store and a key value store, as well as a distributed cache

Riak, which is a key-value store, although it can be used as a document store since the value can be a JSON document

NuoDB, which will provide compatibility with other databases by taking on multiple ‘personalities’ – an Oracle personality via PL/SQL compatibility is in the development roadmap, as is a document store personality via JSON support.

General-purpose databases with multi-model options
What’s the difference between multi-model databases and existing general-purpose databases that have optional capabilities for serving multiple models? My book book it’s about being designed for purpose, but I’m sure that will be a debating point for the future. In the mean-time, examples include:

Oracle MySQL 5.6, which can support both SQL-based access and key-value access via the Memcached API.

Oracle MySQL Cluster 7.2, which similarly supports concurrent NoSQL and SQL access to the database.

IBM DB2 10, which extends DB2’s hybrid relational and XML engine to enable the storage and management of graph triples, as well as support for the SPARQL 1.0 query language.

Akiban Server, which has the ability to treat groups of tables as objects and access them as JSON documents via SQL.

PostgreSQL h-store, which can be used for storing key-value pairs within a PostgreSQL data field, thereby enabling schema-less queries against data stored in PostgreSQL

We are also aware of other NewSQL database that plan to adopt support for popular NoSQL data models, while IBM has also talked about plans to integrate key value store NoSQL access capabilities with DB2 and Informix database software.

Other products that could be considered multi-model options include:
Oracle Spatial and Graph, an option for Oracle Database 11g.

One of the drivers of NoSQL database adoption has been polyglot persistence – using multiple databases depending on the specific requirements of individual applications. Multi-model databases contradict this trend, to some extent, so it will be interesting to see whether they begin to gain traction.

While we see the wisdom of selecting the best database for the job, we also recognise that it could sometimes be a matter of choosing the best data model for the job, while relying on a single storage back-end.

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Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?

January 15th, 2013 — Data management

As 2012 came to a close I tweeted

NuoDB has today kicked off that debate with the launch of its Cloud Data Management System and 12 rules for a 21st century cloud database.

NuoDB’s 12 rules appear pretty sound to me – in fact you could argue they are somewhat obvious. This is actually to NuoDB’s credit in my opinion, in that they haven’t simply listed 12 differentiating aspects of their product, but 12 broader requirements.

Either way, I believe that this is the right time to be debating what constitutes a “cloud database”. Database on the cloud are nothing new, but these are existing relational database products configured to run on the cloud.

In other words, they are databases on the cloud, not databases of the cloud. There is a significant difference between spinning up a relational database in a VMI on the cloud versus deploying a database designed to take advantage of, enable, and be part of, the cloud.

To me, a true cloud database would be one designed to take advantage of and enable elastic, distributed architecture. NuoDB is one of those, but it won’t be the only one. Many NoSQL databases could also make a claim, albeit not for SQL and ACID workloads.

This isn’t a matter of SQL versus NoSQL, however. We’ve seen companies building their own next-generation database platforms deploying NoSQL and SQL technologies alongside each other for different workload and consistency requirements. Where the SQL layer falls down is the inability of existing relational databases to support elastic, geographically distributed cloud environments.

NuoDB believes it has a solution to that. So too do others including GenieDB, Translattice and VMware. Meanwhile Google’s F1 and Spanner projects have legitimized the concept of the globally-distributed SQL database.

Either way, the era of the relational cloud database – rather than the relational database on the cloud – has begun.

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