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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jitterbit CloudReplicate – Syncing Salesforce.com Data With A Database On AWS
Jitterbit (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the Oakland based data integration company, today announced Jitterbit CloudReplicate for Amazon EC2. Jitterbit offers both appliance based downloadable and cloud based integration solutions to enterprises of all sizes. I got interested in Jitterbit because they also offer their platform under one of the open source licenses. In October, […]
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 […]
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 […]
