Write the Docs, Railsconf Portland, RICON East, Node PDX, Vancouver Polyglot, Open Source Bridge and OSCON…
…if you are deciding what to attend this year, here’s the top of the list. Just a few key conferences that will kick ass in technical & academic content. The other great thing about these conferences is that they either have a “code of ethics” or are reknown for real conference diversity vs. the “hey [...]
Top Five Challenges Facing Enterprise Application Developers
Several common themes have emerged from discussions with a broad array of enterprise developers. In this post, I’ll share some of what I’ve been hearing. I would love to get your feedback. 1) Cloud Apps are Hard to Get Right – While abstraction of infrastructure has helped agility and application management, it doesn’t make it [...]
A Journey From SQL to NoSQL to NewSQL
Two years back I wrote that the primary challenge with NoSQL is that it’s not SQL. SQL has played a huge rule in making relational databases popular for the last forty years or so. Whenever the developers wanted to design an(y) application they put an …
The Database Deluge… Who’s Who
These are the top NoSQL Solutions in the market today that are open source, readily available, with a strong and active community, and actively making forward progress in development and innovations in the technology. I’ve provided them here, in no order, with basic descriptions, links to their main website presence, and with short lists of [...]
Big Data as Core, Big Data as Context, and Big Data as Buzzword Bingo
It’s neither particularly newsworthy nor insightful to suggest that ‘Big Data’ gets everywhere these days, but two recent items reminded me of the gulf between credible execution of a big data play and the more questionable tacking of the big data meme onto an otherwise useful product. Christmas is coming. Which means skating, and pantomimes [...]
What really is Open Source Software and what’s this community nonsense they ask…
Open Source Software (OSS), Why Some Fail At It OSS has won the war. It has been over for years now. Microsoft has ceded, Oracle, VMware and many others have stepped up and attempted to embrace the open source community. Sometimes they’ve been successful, sometimes they haven’t. They’re slowly changing their models to play well [...]
Heroku hstore: Key Value Store Inside Relational Database
Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS company under Salesforce, announced recently that they will be supporting key value store inside their Postgres database instances. Named hstore, it takes advantage of Postgres’ extensibility. Ever since MySQL was gobbled up by Oracle, Postgres has been getting additional developer love from the community. I am not saying that [...]
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 [...]
Making The Cut To Favorite Cloud, SaaS, And Tech Bloggers
Dealmaker Media has published a list of their favorite Cloud, SaaS, and Tech bloggers. Once again I am happy to report that I made the cut. I am also glad to see my fellow bloggers Krishnan and Zoli on this list who are the driving force behind Cloudave. I was on a similar list of [...]
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 [...]
Jaspersoft Adds Big Data Support
Jaspersoft (see previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based BI vendor, today announced support for big data sources for Business Intelligence reporting. They recently released a ramped up version 4 targeting embedded BI market. With today’s release, Jaspersoft support native reporting for Hadoop, NoSQL and Massively Parallel Processing Analytics Databases. In this era of big [...]
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 [...]
Challenging Stonebraker’s Assertions On Data Warehouses – Part 2
Check out the Part 1 if you haven’t already read it to better understand the context and my disclaimer. This is the Part 2 covering the assertions from 6 to 10.Assertion 6: Appliances should be “software only.”“In my 40 years of experience as a com…
Challenging Stonebraker’s Assertions On Data Warehouses – Part 1
I have tremendous respect for Michael Stonebraker. He is an apt visionary. What I like the most about him is his drive and passion to commercialize the academic concepts. ACM recently published his article “My Top 10 Assertions About Data Warehouses….
