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Article | 3/01/2013 Cassandra 1.2 better geared for 'fat servers'
Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to be...
Article | 18/12/2012 PostGres offered as a cloud cluster service
Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud, hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an...
Article | 15/12/2012 YouTube scales MySQL with Go code
YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scal...
Article | 12/12/2012 Oracle rolls out new database security package
Oracle is simplifying its security offerings by combining a pair of existing tools into a single package.
Article | 11/12/2012 Oracle's Database Appliance certified for SAP software
Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance, which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata ...
Article | 21/11/2012 Supercomputers face growing resilience problems
As supercomputers grow more powerful, they'll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few rese...
Article | 16/11/2012 World's most powerful big data machines charted on Graph 500
The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloa...
Article | 15/11/2012 Startups reportedly flocking to SAP's HANA in-memory database
Some 20 startups have inked commercial deals with SAP that will see them run production applications with the HANA in-memory database on Amazon Web Se...
Article | 14/11/2012 SAP plans to add 'mission-critical' features to HANA in-memory database
SAP has developed an update for its HANA in-memory database that will enable it to "power mission-critical transactional and analytical applications i...
Article | 13/11/2012 Jaspersoft BI suite gets a new visualization engine
With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, ...
Article | 13/11/2012 SAP promises '360-degree' view of customer with HANA-powered CRM platform
SAP is tying the HANA in-memory database to its CRM (customer relationship management) software and other applications, creating a package that will "...
Article | 9/11/2012 Google gives Cloud-based database a performance boost
Google's Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running their instances in data cente...
Article | 8/11/2012 Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle
Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert.
Article | 7/11/2012 Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server
In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management...
Article | 30/10/2012 Sybase chief John Chen leaving SAP
Sybase CEO John Chen is leaving SAP, roughly two-and-a-half years after SAP acquired the company for its database and mobility technologies, SAP annou...