Tag: relational database
MemSQL Giving Away Database for Four-Node Clusters
Everybody likes free stuff. Today MemSQL announced that it's getting into the free software market by giving away copies of its distributed relational database management system for clusters up to four nodes and 128GB of Read more…
Data Warehouse Modernization and the Journey to the Cloud
To say that organizations today are facing a complex data landscape is really an understatement. Data exists in on-premises systems and in the cloud; data is used across applications and accessed across departments. I Read more…
How SQL++ Makes JSON More Queryable
For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn't "speak SQL." But no Read more…
The Future of Storage: Software
In the previous story in this series, we looked at innovations occurring in storage hardware. Now it's time to turn our attention to what's going on in storage software, where innovation continues to push the boundaries Read more…
MemSQL Gains Traction, New Investors
MemSQL, the database vendor that touts its architecture as capable of handling both data analytics and transactions, announced a $30 million funding round led by, GV, the former Google Ventures. The hybrid SQL databas Read more…
Making Hadoop Relatable Again
There has been much debate over the future of Hadoop in recent months. Should it work more like a cloud object store? Should it support GPUs and FPGAs, Docker or Kubernetes (or both)? Should compute and storage be separa Read more…
Distributed PostgreSQL Settling Into Cloud
Organizations that want the scalability of a distributed PostgreSQL database but don't want the hassle of managing it themselves may be interested in the latest news from Citus Data, which today unveiled new options for Read more…
Looker’s Audacious Moonshot to Outgrow Oracle
You may have considered Looker to be just another business intelligence tool. After all, that's the bucket analysts at Forrester and Gartner put the company in. But talk a bit with its founder, Lloyd Tabb, and you quickl Read more…
Google Cloud Adds Apps Database
Google continues to add features to its public cloud platform as a way of differentiating its services, this time announcing the public beta release of a cloud-based relational database for use in developing key enterpri Read more…
CrateDB Tackles Machine Analytics with Scale-Out SQL Database
Developers who want to analyze big, fast-moving machine data without the complexity of a NoSQL database have another option in CrateDB, an open source, scale-out SQL database that just became generally available today. Read more…
Training Firm’s Unexpected Growth Exposes Weakness of Relational Tech
When CPL Training Group started providing Web-based training several years ago, the UK company expected strong but steady growth. But when unexpected demand threatened to freeze the relational database serving the appl Read more…
The Algebra of Data Promises a Better Math for Analytics, And More
A company by the name of Algebraix Data is beginning to speak publicly for the first time about the algebra of data, an approach to storing and accessing data that it devised and patented. The company is using its data a Read more…
Meet the Avant-Garde of New Relational Databases
In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the new "avant-garde" of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts of scalability and elastici Read more…
Lockheed Martin, Data Vendors Team on Secure Spy Database
Geospatial intelligence is among the hottest and most data-intensive tools being used by U.S. military analysts to sweep up huge amounts of satellite and other sensor imagery. This highly classified data is often combine Read more…
Apache Spark Continues to Spread Beyond Hadoop
Apache Spark is most often thought of as a faster replacement for MapReduce, the batch-oriented programming framework that enabled first-gen Hadoop to catch traction 10 years ago. Indeed, Spark was initially created with Read more…
Hadoop-based RDBMS Now Available from Splice
Splice Machine today announced the commercial availability of its relational database management system (RDBMS) for Hadoop. By building a SQL-compliant RDBMS atop HBase, Splice Machine is giving customers another place t Read more…
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