Tag: database
2018 Predictions: Opening the Big Data Floodgates
The pace of innovation in big data today is exceeded only by the actual volume of data generated. So how will the industry respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by huge pipes of data that will be opened up in Read more…
MariaDB, Tableau Partner on Multiple Workload Types
MariaDB Corp., the open source database, has been integrated with Tableau Software's business intelligence and visual analytics platform. The combination means Tableau users could run both operational and transactional w Read more…
African Hospitals Go Digital with NoSQL and Mobile Tech
In many parts of Africa, patient health records are still a paper-based affair, which greatly hinders the capability of public health officials to track the spread of diseases like Ebola, let alone allow a nurse to acces Read more…
In-Memory Database Goes ‘Translytical’
Database vendors continue to move computing and analytical processing closer to data as applications leverage more data types ranging from structured to those data sets that can be transformed to another data type, or po Read more…
Mature MADlib Moves Up Apache Development Chain
As the in-database analytics library MADlib makes inroads in emerging cloud-based AI applications, the open source initiative is moving up the development chain as a priority project within the Apache Software Foundation Read more…
A Bottom-Up Approach to Data Quality
Despite the amazing progress we've made in novel data processing techniques, poor data quality remains the bane of analytics. It's why data scientists spend upwards of 80% of their time preparing and cleansing data inste Read more…
‘Database Learning’ Aims to Speed Queries
University researchers have developed a lightweight software tool that enables existing databases to learn from user queries, pinpointing requested data without starting from scratch on every query. A University of Mi Read more…
MongoDB, Tableau Expand Integration With BI Link
Database vendor MongoDB is again partnering with visual analytics specialist Tableau Software on an upgraded business intelligence connector designed to extend the merger of the two big data platforms to leverage Tableau Read more…
IBM Bolsters Spark Ties with Latest SQL Engine
IBM is extending its commitment to Apache Spark as a key component of in-memory analytics with the latest release of its SQL engine for Hadoop. The new version of IBM Big SQL released last week also solidifies the com Read more…
The Top Three Challenges of Moving Data to the Cloud
Most data-driven businesses have already or are looking to move their data from on-premises databases to the cloud in order to take advantage of its unlimited, on-demand storage and compute cycles. Implementing cloud war Read more…
MySQL Tops Database Rankings
MySQL remains the world's most popular open source database while MySQL skills are by far the most in-demand among recruiters, according to the latest rankings of popular databases. The Stackshare Database Index ranke Read more…
MongoDB Pivots to Analytics
MongoDB wasn't originally designed to power advanced analytics. But the frustration that people have with Hadoop data lakes and the desire to get real-time answers from the database driving their applications is leading Read more…
Tibco Launches BI Cloud, Updates Streaming Platform
As self-service data analytics inexorably shifts to the cloud, another business intelligence and analytics tool vendor has rolled out a cloud platform along with an updated version of its streaming analytics framework as Read more…
Ignite Buys Database Vendor Infobright
Ignite Technologies Inc., a privately held enterprise software vendor, has acquired Toronto-based analytic database developer Infobright Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ignite is owned by enterprise Read more…
MapD Upgrades GPU-Based Database Performance
The latest version of MapD Technologies' flagship database and visualization platform reemphasizes GPU acceleration as a means of scaling data volumes and boosting query performance to "hundreds of billions of rows." Read more…
Actian Stages Comeback With Hybrid Database
Actian Corp., which reportedly dropped out of the analytical database market last fall, is making a comeback with the release of a hybrid database that combines transaction processing with its analytics query engine A Read more…
5 Ways to Optimize Your Cloud Storage ROI
Every day, machine data or data gathered from the Internet of Things (IoT) data is continuously produced by almost every process businesses run, including storage, applications, servers, networks, sensors and security sy Read more…
Redis Labs Gains VC Funding, New Enterprise Customers
While the pace of venture capital investment in technology startups declined during the first half of this year, some analytics and database companies are reporting continuing and expanding investments. Among them is Read more…
One Myth Buster’s View on Success and Failure
"Fail fast" is one of the credos that has come to permeate our big data culture. The quicker we can get the bad ideas out of the way, the quicker we can find the ones that work. But as MythBuster Adam Savage said at the Read more…
Upgrades Aid Access to Legacy Data
The latest release of a No+SQL database management platform adds integration capabilities for legacy COBOL and Btrieve systems designed to allow users to update the data management engine underneath their existing applic Read more…
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