Tag: database
BI on Hadoop–What Are Your Options?
In the era of RDBMS and modern data warehouses, business intelligence was mostly a solved problem. Any reasonably advanced tool would work with any reasonable database, and the only real work was deciding what to collect Read more…
New Databases Help Astronomers Probe the Universe
The observable universe became a bit more manageable this week when international astronomers moved to get their arms around their massive datasets through a partnership with the developers of the integrated Rule-Oriente Read more…
FDA Releases Medical Device Database
In an attempt to spur innovation and advance scientific research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a range of information related to the development and regulation of new medical devices. Under its " Read more…
Five Ways Open Source Databases Are Limited
Two of the reasons to deploy an open source database are cost and philosophy. Philosophically, the open source movement subscribes to the notion that having community-developed product creates a better product, and/or "c Read more…
AMEX Adopts Machine Learning to Crunch More Data
Machine learning continues to make inroads in the financial services sector and other large enterprises as businesses seek to leverage the technology to get a better handle on customer data and preferences. A user and Read more…
Neo Tech Cranks Up Speed on Upgraded Neo4j
Graph database specialist Neo Technology has rolled out an updated version of its Neo4j tool that includes faster read and write performance capabilities aimed at critical graph database applications. Neo4j 2.2 releas Read more…
Hadoop RDBMS Ready for Primetime
Targeting database architects and application developers, Splice Machine Inc. announced general availability this week of its Hadoop database that had been in beta testing since May. The Hadoop relational database manage Read more…
MongoDB Teams with Weather Channel on Digital Alerts
Somebody is finally trying to do something about the weather. The Weather Channel has begun transitioning its digital platforms, including its mobile apps running on iOS and Android, to MongoDB's database. The new pla Read more…
Are Data Lakes All Wet?
Enterprise data management platforms known as "data lakes" are being promoted as, among other things, a potential solution to "information siloes" by combining different managed collections of data in an unmanaged data l Read more…
ParAccel Lifts Hood on CARFAX Overhaul
In the wake of their competitors being gobbled up by giants and their announcement today of a new connector to Hadoop, we step back and look at how analytical platforms like ParAccel's are handling large amounts of complex data for companies like CARFAX, which recently put the company in the driver's seat following limitations from their legacy.... Read more…
The Evolution of Data Management
This week we provide a special section on the changing landscape of database and data management technologies from guest author Kate Mitchell. We trace the trajectory from the 1970s to today's NoSQL approaches with an eye on the key architectures that are emerging to support big data... Read more…
Pulling Big Insurance Into the In-Memory Fold
SAS, SAP and others are at the forefront of delivering their message about the speed and scalability powers of in-memory platforms for businesses that require near real-time operations on massive, diverse data sets--both running within Hadoop and popular databases. This week SAS reached out to the insurance... Read more…
HBase Rival Steps Out of the Shadows
With the claim that their database, which is modeled after Google's own Bigtable in-house scalable DB, can bring along massive efficiencies over HBase, one open source database startup is finding a way to fit into the existing big data... Read more…
SAP Dishes on Database Market Ambitions
It’s been a banner year for SAP, which boasted 2011 profits that topped the charts over the course of their 40-year history. The company says that this growth has been spurred in part by their ability to tap into the needs of big data.... Read more…
Financial Firms See Big Data’s Big Picture
If firms glean valuable information before their competitors do, they get the upper hand. This is a two-way street, however, as competing firms are using advanced analytics to incentivize customers away from their current financial institutions. Read more…
RainStor Brings Database to Hadoop
This week RainStor announced it was bringing an enterprise-grade database that will run natively on Hadoop. Additionally, they announced partnerships within the Hadoop ecosystem, including with Cloudera and MapR, among others. Read more…
Partnership Targets BI Scalability
This week analytics platform vendor, ParAccel and Birst, a provider of SaaS and on-premise business intelligence, formed an alliance. Birst will take advantage of the scalable database offerings of ParAccel, while on the flip side, ParAccel will use Birst's BI offering in house. Read more…
The Best Kept Secret in Big Analytics?
When a company calls itself a "best kept secret" bells should go off that they might be covering for a lack of business. One exception to this, however, is 1010data--a company that has grown quietly within the ranks of Fortune 500 financial and retail firms and is moving into the spotlight. Read more…
Quest Software Tops IDC Charts for Database Tools
This week Quest Software announced that the IDC report “Worldwide Database Development and Management Tools 2010 Vendor and Segment Analysis” named them as the market leader for the third year in a row, based on developments in their line of Toad products. Read more…
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