Time to Consider “Avant-Garde” Databases?
by Angela Guess Alex Woodie recently wrote for Datanami, “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 elasticity on industry-standard hardware, while retaining the precepts of relational tables and SQL. […]
Read More →Aadhaar: The World’s Largest Biometric Database
by Angela Guess Ambika Behal writes in Forbes, “India’s Aadhaar project is one of the world’s most ambitious big data projects – aiming to collect, store and utilize biometric information from a population of over a billion people – so of course there are challenges, but also an incredible opportunity, says MapR, the company behind […]
Read More →Case Study: Transitioning to NoSQL at a Gambling Website
by Angela Guess Dan Macklin recently wrote in InfoQ, “As one of the world’s biggest online gambling websites – serving around 19 million customers in nearly 200 hundred countries – everything about bet365 and its IT is on a huge scale. It has to be. At peak times our betting platform runs at more than […]
Read More →Axibase Releases Temporal Versioning Capabilities in Axibase Time Series Database
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “Axibase Corporation, the software vendor behind products like Axibase Enterprise Reporter and Axibase Time Series Database, today announced the release of a new feature in ATSD specifically for customers recording data from Smart Meters in the energy and utilities sectors. This new feature is […]
Read More →Goodgame Studios Takes Gaming to the Next Level with MapR
by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop® that integrates web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, today announced that Goodgame Studios, a leading free-to-play online game development company, is using MapR to improve the gaming experience for its 270 […]
Read More →Biggest NoSQL Challenges and Problems Discussed at NoSQL Now!
by Angela Guess Writing for SearchDataManagement, Jack Vaughan recently reported, “Developers from Internet giants and tech startups have created a slew of NoSQL databases designed to evade the schema rigidity of SQL-based relational software. But their progeny have some issues that can complicate efforts to deploy and manage enterprise NoSQL architecture to support business intelligence […]
Read More →New MongoDB Release Expands NoSQL to a Wider Audience
by Angela Guess Stephanie Simone recently wrote in Database Trends and Applications, “MongoDB is releasing an enhanced version of its platform, giving the company the opportunity to expand its capabilities to more users. ‘We’re opening up MongoDB to a bigger audience in the enterprise, which is to say that traditionally the people that have used […]
Read More →Why ‘Relational Databases Don’t Handle Big Data Well’
by Angela Guess Chris Preimesberger recently opined for eWeek, “Enterprises are confronting the reality of big, fast, varied and changing data. It’s no longer about managing a small number of systems, but rather hundreds of systems and petabytes of data. Smart companies know that managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, known as big […]
Read More →Different Types of NoSQL Databases and When to Use Them
by Angela Guess Jim Scott recently wrote for Smart Data Collective, “There are four main types of NoSQL databases, plus one type of “database” that should also be considered in the mix. In this blog post, I’ll provide a brief description of these types of NoSQL databases and when they can be used. (1) Key-value. […]
Read More →5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a NoSQL Database
by Angela Guess Barry Perkins of MarkLogic recently wrote for Enterprise Tech, “Here are five questions enterprises should ask when selecting a NoSQL database: (1) What is ACID? ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a set of properties that guarantees database transactions are reliably processed. Any application that supports simultaneous clients requires transactions with ACID […]
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