To Andrew Davidson, senior vice president of products at MongoDB, the database business operates in an entirely different type of market than traditional software, where vendors might sell their products into one organization after another, eventually reaching a saturation point. …
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …
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. …
Gannett, the $3.2 billion media giant that owns USA Today and 92 other newspapers in the United States, is undergoing massive changes in its business, and over the past few years its technology platform has been in the process of being completely overhauled to make it more nimble. …
Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used as a the repository of record for all kinds of data. …
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …
When Microsoft says that it is embracing Linux as a peer to Windows, it is not kidding. …
As a platform for doing analytics on large datasets that is much less costly than would be possible with parallel data warehouses, Hadoop and its myriad extensions and modified underpinnings has fulfilled its purpose. …
The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a relational or NoSQL, has to be able to support the Structured Query Language that has been associated with relational databases from day one. …
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