Store
The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …
NoSQL
Store
A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales
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. …
Code
Extra, Extra: Gannett Embraces NoSQL And Cloud
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. …
AI
Making NoSQL Scale Better On Hadoop
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. …
AI
MemSQL Wants To Be The Storage Engine For Spark
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …
AI
Making Cassandra Do Azure, But Not Windows
When Microsoft says that it is embracing Linux as a peer to Windows, it is not kidding. …
AI
Synchronizing Data In Hadoop Lakes
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. …
Code
SQL Will Inevitably Come To NoSQL Databases
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. …