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NoSQL is a Premature Optimization

NoSQL is a Premature Optimization

By Bob Warfield on July 24, 2011

There’s been a lot of back and forth lately from the NoSQL crowd around Michael Stonebreaker’s contention that reliance on relational technology and MySQL has trapped Facebook in a ‘fate worse than death.’   This was reported in a GigaOm post by Derrick Harris.  Harris reports in a later post that most of the reaction […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, data center, mySQL, NoSQL | 4 Responses

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

By Dennis Moore on April 15, 2011

Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon.com, apple, C3, Cisco, Cloud, Dell, Epicor, google, hadoop, hp, ibm, Infor, Larry Ellison, Lawson, Marc Benioff, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, mySQL, news, NoSQL, oracle, Patent, PeopleSoft, salesforce.com, sap, Steve Ballmer, VMware, workday

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

By Merv Adrian on November 28, 2010

Over the past two years, Cloudera has demonstrated the power of surrounding emerging open source software with support services, expertise and its own IP. The firm has  racked up over 30 customers since its founding in late 2008, and emerged as the leading source of Apache Hadoop. Cloudera’s recent C round of financing brought its […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Big Data, Cassandra, Cloudera, crippleware, failover, Flume, hadoop, Industry Trends, Informatica, key-value store, mapreduce, Membase, memcached, MongoDB, mySQL, NoSQL, OLTP, Open source, RDBMS, Riak, Sqoop, SSD

At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

By Merv Adrian on November 10, 2010

I hope I can be forgiven the cute headline. It speaks to a series of events that were heard in Oracle Open World messaging, where the word “open” appeared much less frequently than in years past. Oracle is fortifying its borders, opening new fronts in its market battles, and slowly closing itself off from some […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Cloudera, CouchDB, Goldengate, hadoop, Hive, hp, Industry Trends, Ingres, InnoDB, Java, MyISAM, mySQL, NoSQL, oracle, PostgreSQL, Red Hat, sap, Vectorwise, windows | 1 Response

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

By Merv Adrian on November 8, 2010

Calpont, rapidly emerging as yet another contender in the ADBMS sweepstakes, has announced version 2.0 of InfiniDB, its columnar MPP offering over shared storage. The value proposition hits now-familiar themes: high-performance query, fast data loading, data compression, and parallelized user defined functions (UDFs), all of which are becoming key checkoff capabilities. InfiniDB also hits hard […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, BBBT, Calpont, column stores, columnar, community edition, correlated subquery, data compression, data load, DDL, distributed query, EMC, failover, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, InfiniDB, mapreduce, microsoft, MPP, mySQL, OEM, Open source, oracle, partitioning, Percona, pricing, sap, shared nothing, shared storage, SQL, storage engine, Sybase, Teradata, UDF

Internal Email on Why a  Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL

Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL

By Zoli Erdos on November 4, 2010

Twitter is abuzz this morning with MySQL news: What these messages refer to is that Oracle dropped InnoDB from the free Classic Edition, it is now only available starting with the $2,000 Standard Edition.  A few days ago we heard support prices were increased – none of this should come as a surprise, the writing […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application software, CouchDB, Infrastructure, InnoDB, Java, Linux, mySQL, Open source, oracle, Postgres, Sun | 11 Responses

The Guardian: NoSQL EU. Don’t Melt The Database

The Guardian: NoSQL EU. Don’t Melt The Database

By James Governor on April 20, 2010

What follows is something like a live blog, based on comments from Matthew Wall and Simon Willison from The Guardian the NoSQL EU conference in London today. Wall kicked off the talk with a question about NoSQL: is it a good name for the phenomenon? He says not really, pointing out absurdity of calling SQLite […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged databases, Google AppEngine, Google Docs, Guardian, hadoop, mySQL, NoSQL, oracle, Redis NoSQL, Relational database, VMware | 3 Responses

What can we learn from software development job posts? (SQL, Java, and XML will get you a job!)

What can we learn from software development job posts? (SQL, Java, and XML will get you a job!)

By Dennis Moore on April 5, 2010

About a year ago, I posted some analysis of what we can learn from job posts. Since then, the job outlook for at least the American economy has substantially declined, but there are still opportunities available if you have – or can develop – the skill…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Dice.com, it jobs, Java, job market, jobs, mySQL, salesforce.com, sap, Thoughts | 7 Responses

Minimizing the Cost of SaaS Operations

Minimizing the Cost of SaaS Operations

By Bob Warfield on March 29, 2010

SaaS software is much more dependent on being run by the numbers than conventional on-premises software because the expenses are front loaded and the costs are back loaded.  SAP learned this the hard way with its Business By Design product, for example.  If you run the numbers, there is a high degree of correlation between […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, cost reduction, data center, EC2, enterprise software, Helpstream, mySQL, Open source, platforms, SaaS, salesforce.com, Software development, startups | 7 Responses

Oracle and Sun – Quick Analysis

Oracle and Sun – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on January 27, 2010

Notes and commentary from today’s 5 hour “what we’re going to do with Sun” Oracle event.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Companies, enterprise software, ibm, M&A, mySQL, Open source, oracle, portfolios, Quick Analysis, Sun, sunw, Systems Management

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