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Microsoft throws down the gauntlet in business intelligence
[company]Microsoft[/company] is not content to let Excel define the company’s reputation among the world’s data analysts. That’s the message the company sent…
Read MoreBasho, creator of NoSQL Riak database, raises $25M
Basho, the company behind the Riak key-value database and Riak CS cloud-storage system, has raised a $25 million series G round of…
Read MoreMongoDB CEO: Company was ‘opportunistic’ in raising $80M
According to MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria, it was unsolicited demand from investors that drove much of the company’s recent $80 million investment round, news of which broke…
Read MoreMemSQL open sources tool that helps move data into your database
Database startup MemSQL said today that it open sourced a new data transfer tool called MemSQL Loader that helps users haul over…
Read MoreShocker: Lots of new product-and-feature news at AWS confab, but nary a price cut in sight
At AWS Re:Invent, Amazon may be signaling an end to the race to the bottom with lots of higher-end products and services, but not a mention of price cuts. There is another day to go, but still.…
Read MoreFormer MongoDB CEO: Work-life balance is a people issue, not just a women’s issue
MongoDB Vice Chairman and former CEO came on the Structure Show this week to talk about the company's future, and how life has been since stepping down from the leadership role in order to spend more time with his family.…
Read MoreAmazon expands its NoSQL story with JSON support in DynamoDB
Amazon Web Services' popular DynamoDB service now supports JSON documents, a capability that makes it more competitive against alternatives from Microsoft, Google and MongoDB. AWS also increased storage and throughput limits on the DynamoDB free tier, making the service that much more appealing.…
Read MoreCouchbase replaces its storage engine with homegrown ForestDB
Couchbase has built its own data store called ForestDB in order to boost the performance and efficiency of its family of NoSQL database offerings. ForestDB is open source and was designed with mobile devices and solid-state drives in mind.…
Read MoreNoSQL is growing up, and DataStax just raised $106M to prove it
DataStax, like a couple other of its NoSQL peers, has come a long way since it launched a few years ago. Now valued at $830 million and selling into some of the world's largest companies, life is a bit different.…
Read MoreMongoDB adds paid support for its free software
By offering users of its free software the same support it offers users of its paid software, MongoDB is actually making a pretty bold statement. As competitors encroach on its turf and IPO demands ramp up, the company is doubling down on its open source foundation.…
Read MoreGoogle shows off Mesa, a super-fast data warehouse that runs across data centers
Google has published a paper about its latest big data system, a globally distributed data warehouse called Mesa that can ingest millions of rows in minutes and even survive a data center failure.…
Read MoreSQL-on-Hadoop startup Splice Machine adds $3M in funding
Splice Machine, a San Francisco-based startup promising to turn HBase into a relational database that can even handle transactional workloads, has added…
Read MoreThe lab that created Spark wants to speed up everything, including cures for cancer
AMPLab, the University of California, Berkeley, research group responsible for making Spark a household name in big data, has a lot more tricks up its sleeve. They range from databases to machine learning, and even include tools that could help treat cancer.…
Read MoreEven Palantir can’t ignore the cult of simplicity
Palantir has a customer base that pays for results, but the company nonetheless attributes puts a lot of effort into user experience. In June, it re-architected its database simplicity in mind; on Thursday, it acquired a startup doing drag-and-drop mobile app development.…
Read MoreThe webscale effect: 6 big shifts in computing, courtesy of the world’s largest web companies
Large web companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundaries of IT for years, and now their problems -- and solutions -- are making their ways into the mainstream.…
Read MoreCloudera and MongoDB enter into a deep product partnership
Cloudera and MongoDB have formed a partnership that could potentially span everything from integrations to new products. It's a big bet by MongoDB that Cloudera will be the Hadoop distribution of choice for its users, and another way for Cloudera to distinguish itself from Hadoop peers.…
Read MoreMicrosoft is trying to be the platform company for big data apps, too
Microsoft showed off more its big data strategy on Tuesday in an event that touched on everything Excel to "ambient intelligence." If the company can execute, it has a shot to repeat its desktop success in the data era.…
Read MoreThe Defense Department’s data strategy: Huge, massive and distributed
Sqrrl co-founder and VP of business development Ely Kahn came on the Structure Show this week to break down the state of cybersecurity and the cutting edge of data analysis within the Department of Defense.…
Read MoreDataStax takes Cassandra in-memory
NoSQL startup DataStax announced on Wednesday that it has added an in-memory option to its commercial version of the Cassandra key-value database.…
Read More5 things everyone should know about Hadoop
It didn't take long for the Hadoop market to become a juggernaut, and it won't take long for it to undergo some significant technological changes. Cloudera co-founder and chief strategy officer Mike Olson came on the Structure Show podcast to break it down.…
Read MoreCloudera says Impala is faster than Hive, which isn’t saying much
Cloudera is touting the speed of its Impala query engine compared to Hive and a leading relational database system, but those aren't really apples-to-apples comparisons. The real question is how all the SQL-on-Hadoop options stack up against one another.…
Read MoreNoSQL startups Couchbase and Basho score some big users
It was a good day for anyone invested in the greater NoSQL market, as Riak creator Basho and Couchcase both announced big…
Read MoreFoundationDB scores $17M to market and support its database
In a bid to bridge the NoSQL-SQL gap, FoundationDB bought Akiban earlier this year. Now it's got fresh funding to backstop its current users and seek new customers.…
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