ScaleBase: The Cloud Native Database Scalability
I’ve been working in the cloud industry for nearly the past decade, and can say, without a doubt, that Database as a Service is one of the most interesting and challenging domains I’ve encountered. In 2005, I ran a software developers team that provided LAMP Software as a Service for enterprises; therefore, I became very familiar […]
Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right
This week saw cloud related announcements from two software behemoths from the traditional era, Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft rebooted Windows Azure making it more palatable to modern day developers and started playing nice on the interoperability game. Oracle re-announced their public cloud strategy and, in the process, tried to convince users that they should see […]
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 […]
