Big Data needs Big Collection and Big Execution
Big Data is the new buzz it seems, and I must say I have been sceptic of it since I first saw the very word – or phrase, what is it? As an IT architect, I’ve always equaled data to databases, and information to applications – and knowledge to the people on top of these [...]
VoltDB releases Their New Version Targeting Better Performance And Durability
VoltDB, an in-memory database designed by well known database researchers like Michael Stonebraker, last week announced the release of their new version with features focussed at performance, durability and easy out of the box experience. One of the reasons VoltDB came into my radar was due to their open source roots. In the age of [...]
10gen Announces $20 M Funding And MongoDB 2.0 Is Out
10gen (previous CloudAve coverage), the company behind open source MongoDB database (previous CloudAve coverage), today announced a new round of funding worth $20 Million backed by Sequoia Capital with the support of existing investors, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. 10gen has raised $31 Million since their inception in 2007. This will help 10gen to expand [...]
Disruptive Cloud Start-Ups – Part 1: NimbusDB
Being at Under The Radar (UTR), watching disruptive companies present and network with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and venture capitalists is an annual tradition that I don’t miss. I have blogged about disruptive start-ups that I saw in the previous years. The biggest exit out of UTR, that I have witnessed so far, is Salesforce.com’s $212 [...]
Couchbase – Consolidation Begins In Big Data Space
One of the common comment from those watching the Big Data space is that there are too many projects that makes it too difficult to chose the right set of tools for the user needs. Well, the consolidation process has started with the merger of Membase (see previous CloudAve coverage), the company supporting open source [...]
Cloudant Gains Traction With Hosted CouchDB And Analytics Offering
Image via Wikipedia Cloudant, the company offering cloud based CouchDB solutions and creator of BigCouch open source product, has been gaining good traction ever since they delivered their first version of Cloudant in Q3 of 2010. In Q4 of 2010 alone they have seen 400% growth in customers using Cloudant’s hosting services since the release [...]
Database.com: Salesforce’s New RDBMS as a Service Offering
Today at Dreamforce 2010 event, Salesforce.com announced the launch of Database.com, their enterprise database offering built just for the cloud. Not only they have acquired an awesome domain name but they have also built a robust service from ground up. Even though we have database as a service from providers like Amazon, Microsoft and a [...]
10Gen Raises $6.5M funding To Push MongoDB Ahead In The NoSQL Race
10Gen, the commercial company behind Open Source MongoDB NoSQL database, today announced a $6.5 Million round of funding. This round is lead by Sequoia Capital with participation from prior investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Union Square Ventures. The open source MongoDB database has 90,000 downloads per month and companies like bit.ly, foursquare, IGN and Sourceforge [...]
SaaS Startups Should Check Out CouchDB First
Ever since Oracle acquired MySQL, there is a lingering question in the minds of SaaS companies that had relied heavily on MySQL and the analysts who follow the space closely. It is about the impact of this acquisition on the SaaS providers. While thinking about the impact of any adverse move by Oracle on SaaS [...]
ParAccel And NetApp Partner To Offer High Performance Analytic Database
Yesterday, ParAccel, provider of high performance analytic database, announced its partnership with NetApp, storage and data management vendor, to offer an integrated solution. This integration of ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) with NetApp Unified Storage Architecture will offer highly boosted performance of Analytic Database at a much affordable cost. This integration comes as ParAccel joins the [...]
Delphix Is A Disruptive Database Virtualization Start-up To Watch
This is my second post on my impressions from the Under The Radar conference. Check out the first post on NoSQL. Virtualization is not cloud computing. However virtualization has significant potential when it is used to achieve cloud-like characteristics such as elasticity, economies of scale, accessibility, simplicity to deploy etc. I have always believed that [...]
Why the “NoSQL” moniker is useful – for now
There’s been a lot of crowing as of late from folks that wish the whole NoSQL “movement” (where “NoSQL” means “not only SQL” – but gets misinterpreted a LOT) had been named something else. Since the whole movement is essentially engineers at this point, I thought I’d weigh in (I’m just a lowly marketing guy, [...]
NoSQL Is Not SQL And That’s A Problem
I do recognize the thrust behind the NoSQL movement. While some are announcing an end of era for MySQL and memcached others are questioning the arguments behind Cassandra’s OLTP claims and scalability and universal applicability of NoSQL. It is great to see innovative data persistence and access solutions that challenges the long lasting legacy of RDBMS. Competition [...]
Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service – My Initial Thoughts
Here is a breaking news from Amazon. Amazon Web Services is releasing Relational Database as a Service (RDS). The press release is yet to go out but the website is active. They will be announcing the news at 1:00 AM PST tomorrow. Even though AWS has a storage cloud (S3), Compute Cloud (EC2) and a [...]
