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Database Plugins LLC, a company that specializes in the design, development and implementation of data-centric solutions for the Oracle market, has announced the availability of two new products. The Database Media-On-Demand Server provides specific support for the HTML5 video and audio tags as well as HTTP streaming of Flash videos. The Database Plugin Server and associated DBMPEG database plugin integrates the feature support of FFMpeg with the Oracle Database. The products form a fundamental framework for a multimedia server architecture, making it is easy for programmers and companies to import multimedia data and directly relate it with the relational data in their databases, Steve Guilford, president of Database Plugins, tells 5 Minute Briefing.
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Oracle announced enhanced support for the R statistical programming language, including new platform ports of R for Oracle Solaris and AIX in addition to Linux and Windows, connectivity to Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database in addition to Oracle Database, and integration of hardware-specific Math libraries for faster performance. "Big data analytics is a top priority for our customers, and the R statistical programming language is a key tool for performing these analytics," says Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle Database Server Technologies.
Posted 12 Sep 2012
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Quest Software has introduced Toad Business Intelligence Suite, a packaged suite of tools to link traditional and non-traditional data sources, bridging the gap between BI environments and distributed big data sources. In addition, Toad BI Suite aims to span the divide between technical and non-technical users by offering tailored interfaces designed to meet their individual data provisioning and analytic needs.
Posted 12 Sep 2012
/ September 12, 2012 Issue
Think About It
Big data is toughfor enterprises to handle, and adding to the challenge is the fact that much of it is unstructured data—business documents, presentations, log files, and social media data. Respondents to a survey of 264 data managers and professionals—subscribers to Database Trends and Applications—almost unanimously agree that unstructured data is on the rise and ready to engulf their current data management systems. The trouble is, their management typically does not understand the scope of the challenge and is failing to recognize the significance of unstructured data assets to the business.
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