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RDBMS Vendors Embrace Hadoop
In years to come, we might remember October 2011 as the month the big database vendors gave in to the dark side and embraced Hadoop. In October, both Microsoft and Oracle announced product offerings which included and embraced Hadoop as the enabler of their "big data" solution. The last of the big three database vendors - IBM - embraced Hadoop back in 2010.
Notes on NoSQL, DBTA E-Edition - February 2012 Issue
2011 in Review: NoSQL Sturm und Drang, While Relational DBs Hibernate
Looking back on 2011, I'm struck by two larger trends in the overall database marketplace. First, most energy and excitement (but not much forward motion) seems to be coming from the NoSQL space. And second, the major relational database platforms are generating what little energy they can outside of their core RDBMS technologies. If you kept up on one or more of the better general IT-industry news sources, you probably saw dozens of stories about various NoSQL vendors, spin-offs, and technologies in a single month, compared with perhaps one or two stories in the same period of time covering a traditional RDBMS platform such as Oracle, Microsoft's SQL Server, or MySQL.
SQL Server Drill Down, DBTA E-Edition - February 2012 Issue
NoSQL for the Enterprise
Businesses are struggling to cope with and leverage an explosion of complex and connected data. This need is driving many companies to adopt scalable, high performance NoSQL databases - a new breed of database solutions - in order to expand and enhance their data management strategies. Traditional "relational" databases will not be able to keep pace with "big data" demands as they were not designed to manage the types of relationships that are so essential in today's applications.
Trends and Applications, DBTA E-Edition - January 2012 - UPDATE Issue
RainStor Announces Enterprise Database Running Natively on Hadoop
RainStor, a provider of big data management software, has unveiled the RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop, which the company describes as the first enterprise database running natively on Hadoop. It is intended to enable faster analytics on multi-structured data without the need to move data out of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) environment. There is architectural compatibility with the way Rainstor manages data and the way Hadoop Distributed File Systems manage CSV files, says Deirdre Mahon, vice president of marketing at Rainstor.
Trends and Applications, DBTA E-Edition - January 2012 - UPDATE Issue
Oracle Joins Forces with Cloudera for Oracle Big Data Appliance
The Oracle Big Data Appliance, an engineered system of hardware and software that was first unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld in October, is now generally available. The new system incorporates Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH3) with Cloudera Manager 3.7, plus an open source distribution of R. The Oracle Big Data Appliance represents "two industry leaders coming together to wrap their arms around all things big data," says Cloudera COO Kirk Dunn.
Trends and Applications, DBTA E-Edition - January 2012 - UPDATE Issue
Oracle Joins Forces with Cloudera for Oracle Big Data Appliance
The Oracle Big Data Appliance, an engineered system of hardware and software that was first unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld in October, is now generally available. The new system incorporates Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH3) with Cloudera Manager 3.7, plus an open source distribution of R. The Oracle Big Data Appliance represents "two industry leaders coming together to wrap their arms around all things big data," says Cloudera COO Kirk Dunn.
News Flashes, 5MB: Oracle - January 18, 2012 Issue
RainStor Announces Enterprise Database Running Natively on Hadoop
RainStor, a provider of big data management software, has unveiled the RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop, which the company describes as the first enterprise database running natively on Hadoop. It is intended to enable faster analytics on multi-structured data without the need to move data out of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) environment. There is architectural compatibility with the way Rainstor manages data and the way Hadoop Distributed File Systems manage CSV files, says Deirdre Mahon, vice president of marketing at Rainstor.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 17, 2012 Issue
Database Month Kicks Off this Week in NYC
Database Month, a new conference "for all things database," starts this week with a series of evening events in NYC. "We took the principle of a conference and spread it out over the entire second half of January to form what is essentially a database festival," Eric David Benari, chairman of Database Month, tells 5 Minute Briefing.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 17, 2012 Issue
Oracle Joins Forces with Cloudera for Oracle Big Data Appliance
The Oracle Big Data Appliance, an engineered system of hardware and software that was first unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld in October, is now generally available. The new system incorporates Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH3) with Cloudera Manager 3.7, plus an open source distribution of R. The Oracle Big Data Appliance represents "two industry leaders coming together to wrap their arms around all things big data," says Cloudera COO Kirk Dunn.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 10, 2012 Issue
MapR Updates Hadoop Distribution With Virtual Machine, New Client Support
MapR Technologies, Inc., an Apache Hadoop distribution, introduced a new release that expands support for C/C++ API access and Windows and Mac clients, as well as being available as a virtual machine. MapR version 1.2 also includes the underpinnings to support MapReduce 2.0, which expands the types of applications that can take advantage of a Hadoop cluster.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - December 13, 2011 Issue
Jaspersoft Enhances Analytics Offering for Big Data
Jaspersoft, a provider of business intelligence software, has released Jaspersoft 4.5. Designed with the non-technical user in mind, Jaspersoft 4.5 delivers drag-and-drop analytics and reporting on any flavor of big data including Apache Hadoop, NoSQL and analytic databases. Key new features include an enhanced analysis user interface, an improved in-memory engine with intelligent query push-down for greater performance, and native, low-latency access to non-relational data like Hadoop HBase and MongoDB. In addition, the new release provides enhanced Excel output and extended REST APIs.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - December 13, 2011 Issue
Oracle Joins the NoSQL Movement
As the leading provider of relational database software, it's hardly surprising that Oracle initially gave little or no credence to the NoSQL movement that emerged in 2009. Indeed, an Oracle white paper from May 2011 concluded with the recommendation to "Go for the tried and true path," and avoid NoSQL databases.
Notes on NoSQL, DBTA E-Edition - December 2011 Issue
Versant Launches NoSQL Database Developer Community
Versant Corporation, a provider of data management software, announced the re-launch of their database developer community, now live on their website. The community is an online portal to help developers apply Versant's NoSQL database technologies, and includes live forums and videos, webcasts, samples and documentation for managing complex object and big data solutions.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - November 29, 2011 Issue
MapR Academy Launches as Free Source for Hadoop Training Videos and Documentation
MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of an advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop, has unveiled the MapR Training Academy, a free internet-based source for training videos and documentation to help the Hadoop user community accelerate the use of Hadoop for more business users. MapR Academy provides an introduction to Hadoop as a big data analytics platform and delves into the architecture, design and administration of Hadoop.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - November 15, 2011 Issue
Quest Software Releases Cloud Database Management Toolkit
Quest Software has begun shipping a version of its Toad data management toolkit for cloud or NoSQL databases, available as a fully functional, commercial-grade product, for free. While the term 'cloud databases' is in the product name, the toolkit is intended for a variety of non-relational databases in both cloud and on-premises settings, John Whittaker, senior manager of product marketing for Quest, tells 5 Minute Briefing. "It's for big data, NoSQL, non-relational databases, which are commonly called 'cloud databases' in the industry," he explains. "We look at them as cloud databases because they were born out of the likes of Yahoo and Google." However, he adds, "this technology doesn't have to live in the cloud. It can be in a variety of places."
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - November 8, 2011 Issue
MapR Technologies and Lucid Imagination Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Search using Open Source Apache Lucene/Solr
MapR Technologies, Inc., a provider of an advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop, and Lucid Imagination, a commercial company for Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, have announced a strategic partnership. The agreement will enable Lucid Imagination to integrate the dependability, ease of use and performance of the MapR Distribution with its LucidWorks search platform. Enterprise users will be able to take advantage of the platform's underlying Lucene/Solr search innovations to better utilize the benefits of big data analytics. "The power to leverage MapR's Hadoop distribution with Lucid Works offers organizations advantages including full data protection with unlimited scale," said Frank Calderon, president and COO of Lucid Imagination.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - November 2, 2011 Issue
Neo Technology Announces NoSQL Database for Spring; New Executives
Neo Technology has launched Spring Data Neo4j 2.0, a scalable graph database, which it describes as the best NoSQL database for Spring. The announcement was made at the SpringOne 2GX 2011 Conference by Neo, a platinum sponsor of the event. This new release gives users the ability to develop applications that leverage complex, connected data, quickly on the Spring Framework. Neo also announced new customers, and named key executive additions, including Rod Johnson, Rickard Öberg, and Lars Nordwall to its team.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - November 2, 2011 Issue
Oracle NoSQL Database Now Available for Download
The Oracle NoSQL Database, which was announced at Oracle OpenWorld, is now available for download from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Oracle also said that its new engineered system, the Oracle Big Data Appliance, an optimized platform for running the Oracle NoSQL Database and Oracle's other big data offerings that was also unveiled at OpenWorld, will ship in Q1 of the 2012 calendar year.
News Flashes, 5MB: Oracle - November 2, 2011 Issue
New Enterprise Database Platform Launched by DataStax
DataStax, a provider of solutions based on the open source Apache Cassandra database platform, announced it is shipping an enterprise database platform designed to enable the management of both real-time and analytic workloads from a single environment. The new platform, DataStax Enterprise, is designed to leverage the features of Cassandra to provide performance enhancements and cost savings over traditional database management solutions, the vendor claims.
Trends and Applications, DBTA E-Edition - October 2011 - UPDATE Issue
Oracle NoSQL Database Now Available for Download
The Oracle NoSQL Database, which was announced at Oracle OpenWorld, is now available for download from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Oracle also said that its new engineered system, the Oracle Big Data Appliance, an optimized platform for running the Oracle NoSQL Database and Oracle's other big data offerings that was also unveiled at OpenWorld, will ship in Q1 of the 2012 calendar year.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - October 25, 2011 Issue
What Does Watson Predict for the Databases of the Future?
One of the greatest achievements in artificial intelligence occurred earlier this year when IBM's Watson supercomputer defeated the two reigning human champions in the popular Jeopardy! TV show. Named after the IBM founder Thomas Watson and not - as you may have thought - Sherlock Holmes' famous assistant, Watson was the result of almost 5 years of intensive effort by IBM, and the intellectual successor to "Deep Blue," the first computer to beat a chess grand master.
Notes on NoSQL, DBTA E-Edition - October 2011 Issue
New DBTA Webcast: No SQL – The Time is Now
As part of Database Trends and Applications' educational series of webcasts on NoSQL technologies, DBTA will present a new webcast introducing introduce Citrusleaf, a real-time NoSQL database built for high-velocity, mission-critical applications. The webcast will be held on Thursday, October 13, at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET.
News Flashes, Unisphere Five Minute Briefing - October 2011 Issue
New Enterprise Database Platform Launched by DataStax
DataStax, a provider of solutions based on the open source Apache Cassandra database platform, announced it is shipping an enterprise database platform designed to enable the management of both real-time and analytic workloads from a single environment. The new platform, DataStax Enterprise, is designed to leverage the features of Cassandra to provide performance enhancements and cost savings over traditional database management solutions, the vendor claims.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - October 4, 2011 Issue
Pervasive Software and Cloudera Partner to Accelerate Big Data Processing on Apache Hadoop
Pervasive Software Inc., a provider of solutions for cloud-based and on-premises data analysis and integration, has announced that Pervasive DataRush for Hadoop v5.1 is a Cloudera Certified Technology. "With this certification, users have the assurance that our highly parallel big data engine has been tested and validated to work with Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop," says Mike Hoskins, Pervasive CTO and general manager, Pervasive Big Data Products and Solutions.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - September 29, 2011 Issue
DBTA and MarkLogic Explore Opportunities Presented by Unstructured Data in Live Webcast on Thursday, September 8
Big data, and particularly unstructured data, is becoming more broadly recognized as a competitive and decision-making tool, while also stretching IT's management, governance and storage capabilities. On September 8, at 2 pm ET/11 am PT, Database Trends and Applications and MarkLogic will offer a one-hour webcast on the nature and scope of the unstructured data challenge, and the key issues that managers are dealing with as they seek to leverage non-relational data in the form of business documents, social and web content, as well as information generated by smartphones and email systems.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - August 30, 2011 Issue
Objectivity Announces Commercial Release of Graph Database
Objectivity, Inc., a database provider, is releasing a commercial version of InfiniteGraph, a distributed and scalable graph database designed to enable a new, cost effective, and efficient way of navigating multiple types of databases for discovery of deeper and more relevant intelligence, enabling real-time decision support. InfiniteGraph already has a large following of users within government agencies, says Jay Jarrell, president and CEO of Objectivity.
Trends and Applications, DBTA E-Edition - August 2011 - UPDATE Issue
"An Introduction to InfiniteGraph, Connecting the Dots to Find Meaning in Big Data" Webcast - Replay Now Available
Host Tom Wilson, president of DBTA and Unisphere Research, set the stage for this recent webcast by noting that a study among DBTA subscribers revealed that 43% of respondents are evaluating new data management strategies and nearly 20% are currently evaluating NoSQL databases. A key technical attribute of graph databases is that everything about the database is optimized around data relationships, Darren Wood, InfiniteGraph architect and lead developer, explained as part of his overview of graph databases. While that may sound like a relational database, it is actually quite different, he emphasized.
News Flashes, 5MB: MultiValue - August 2011 Issue
DBTA and MarkLogic to Present ‘Big Data 2.0' Webcast on Thursday, September 8
Big data, and particularly unstructured data, is becoming more broadly recognized as a competitive and decision-making tool, while also stretching IT's management, governance and storage capabilities.On September 8, at 2 pm ET/11 am PT Database Trends and Applications and MarkLogic will offer a one-hour webcast on the nature and scope of the unstructured data challenge, and the key issues that managers are dealing with as they seek to leverage and effectively manage non-relational data in the form of business documents, social and web content, as well as information generated by smartphones and email systems.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - August 23, 2011 Issue
"An Introduction to InfiniteGraph, Connecting the Dots to Find Meaning in Big Data" Webcast - Replay Now Available
Host Tom Wilson, president of DBTA and Unisphere Research, set the stage for this recent webcast by noting that a study among DBTA subscribers revealed that 43% of respondents are evaluating new data management strategies and nearly 20% are currently evaluating NoSQL databases. A key technical attribute of graph databases is that everything about the database is optimized around data relationships, Darren Wood, InfiniteGraph architect and lead developer, explained as part of his overview of graph databases. While that may sound like a relational database, it is actually quite different, he emphasized.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - August 23, 2011 Issue
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