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The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB

March 9, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …

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A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales

January 27, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 0

Enterprises are creating huge amounts of data and it is being generated, stored, accessed, and analyzed everywhere – in core datacenters, in the cloud distributed among various providers, at the edge, in databases from multiple vendors, in disparate formats, and for new workloads like artificial intelligence. …

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Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud

October 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. …

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Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation

August 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …

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Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases

June 16, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …

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Google Needs Another Database To Attack Oracle, DB2, And SQL Server Directly

May 16, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? …

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The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases

October 28, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …

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The World Has Changed – Why Haven’t Database Designs?

March 25, 2021 Avishai Ish-Shalom 15

It seems like a question a child would ask: “Why are things the way they are?” …

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US Air Force Spends $100 Million To Accelerate Data Warehouses

February 4, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

We talk about big money being spent on GPU-accelerated HPC and AI systems all the time here at The Next Platform, and we have been clear that we think another area where such acceleration will take off is with databases and related analytics, and particularly with data warehouses that have trillions of rows of data. …

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Necessary For Adtech Then, Even Moreso For Enterprise Now

September 11, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Like other technologies, a lot of the databases in use in the world are born out of necessity because some other database hit a performance, capacity, or latency wall – or sometimes all three at the same time. …

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