VoltDB scoops up $8M more to sell its NewSQL database
NewSQL database player sees big opportunity from a new generation of Internet of Things-enabled applications and will use this money to attack it.
Database whiz Michael Stonebraker on the impending battle of the database elephants
There’s still a place for relational databases, it’s just that it’s is getting much smaller over time, and that’s a big problem for Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. So is SAP’s HANA. Tune in this week’s Structure Show.
Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database
Metamarkets is open sourcing its in-memory database technology called Druid. The rationale for open sourcing a key piece of its technology platform is both altruistic (better all!) and a savvy recognition that if the startup doesn’t do it, someone else will build it.
Akiban goes wider with its cool NewSQL database
Akiban, the hot Boston-based NewSQL database startup, is making two offerings Akiban Server and Persistit available as downloads this week. To date beta testers have run Akiban Enterprise as an add-on to existing SQL databases. Akiban Server goes it alone.
Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?
In this era of cheap-and-reliable renta-data centers run by Amazon, Rackspace, and others, does it make sense for a company to build a new data center on it’s own? Unsurprisingly, Amazon’s own James Hamilton doesn’t think so. More surprisingly, other IT pros agree.
Amazon’s Werner Vogels on the Stonebraker/NewSQL debate
The furor over Michael Stonebraker’s criticism of Facebook’s scaling of its MySQL database we covered last Thursday has continued to generate comments on the post itself and on Twitter. Friday, Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels weighed in with a tweet that seemed to accuse Stonebraker of hubris.
Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’
According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death.” It’s actually a predicament all too common among web startups, for which the solution might be a class of databases referred to as NewSQL.