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MariaDB adds OLAP support to transactional database engine
In a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) operations that work on the same data store. The company said MariaDB ColumnStore, which will go into beta testing next month, will be the first database ...
Survey sees big growth for next-generation databases
Results of a new survey by data-protection vendor Datos IO Inc. provides further evidence that scale-out distributed and NoSQL databases – or what Datos IO calls “next generation” databases – are poised for significant short-term growth. The survey of 204 database professionals found that 83 percent expect the size of their next-generation database installation to ...
Spark on track to drive big data market, says Wikibon analyst
Early in his new report on adoption of Apache Spark in Systems of Intelligence on Wikibon Premium, Wikibon Analyst George Gilbert uses a wonderful analogy to describe the much-maligned performance limitations of the MapReduce processing framework: “If an entire program is like a spreadsheet, each cell has to write to disk in order to pass its ...
Bug-tracking app has broad payoff for travel search firm
The hotly competitive online travel market doesn’t tolerate inefficiency. Global travel search site Skyscanner Ltd. discovered that a tool it employed to improve bug tracking in the IT organization had much broader efficiency benefits across the 770-person company. Founded in 2003, Skyscanner is an international concern with offices in 10 cities across Europe, Asia and North ...
MemSQL5 seeks to bridge transaction, analytics processing
MemSQL, a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, is getting major performance enhancements in version 5, announced today at Strata+Hadoop World in San Jose, CA. Most significant is the addition of technology to deliver low-latency query compilation for interactive data exploration through the use of LLVM, a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies ...
Apache Flink creators snag $6M for stream-processing startup
Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around the importance of Apache Spark for event processing, there’s a new real-time player to consider. Data Artisans, a startup founded by the original creators of the Apache Flink stream data processing framework, is today announcing Series A funding of $6 million to develop analytics products based ...
EMC’s flash strategy – simplified
Amid turmoil in the storage industry driven by customers’ rapid adoption of flash technology, software-defined infrastructure and hyper-convergence, EMC has come under some fire for offering a confusing product strategy. Between its homegrown VMAX and XtremIO arrays and the technology it acquired with the purchase of DSSD Inc. last year, the company now has three all-flash ...
Oracle bids to take hybrid cloud to the next level
Although late to the cloud, Oracle appears to be intent on making up for lost time. The company made a strong bid for leadership in the market for hybrid clouds today with a series of announcements ta Oracle CloudWorld in Washington under the banner of “Oracle Cloud at Customer.” Leading the parade is the Oracle Cloud ...
Game of Thrones mania gets cloudy
The folks at CloudEndure, a cloud-based disaster recovery and data migration service provider, tell us they’re big Game of Thrones fans. They’re also pretty good at content marketing. For the third year, CloudEndure has scrubbed the Amazon Web Services Marketplace to find the most highly rated apps. The company said it pored over 4,107 apps ...
Red Hat becomes first $2 billion open-source software vendor
It turns out there is money to be made in open source. Red Hat Inc. beat Wall Street expectations and edged over the $2 billion annual revenue threshold, reporting fourth-quarter revenues of $544 million, beating analyst estimates of $534 million. Revenues were up 17 percent year-over-year. Perhaps more importantly, subscription revenues were up 18 percent ...