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Article | 26/08/2011 NoSQL offers users scalability, flexibility, speed
Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability a...
Article | 26/08/2011 Oracle updates APEX application development kit
Oracle has updated its Application Express tools for quickly building Web applications on top of its database, the company announced Thursday.
Article | 25/08/2011 New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds
New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming rep...
Article | 25/08/2011 EnterpriseDB adding new cloud option for PostgreSQL database
Companies looking to move database operations to public and private clouds will soon have another option in the form of Postgres Plus Cloud Server, En...
Article | 25/08/2011 'NewSQL' could combine the best of SQL and NoSQL
Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be "throwing the baby out with the bath water,"...
Article | 24/08/2011 EnterpriseDB revs up Oracle attack with new management tools
EnterpriseDB could increase the relevance of its database to Oracle shops with a new toolset, announced Tuesday, that can manage many servers at once.
Article | 30/07/2011 Facebook moves 30-petabyte Hadoop cluster to new data center
As the world's largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year.
Article | 30/07/2011 CouchBase, SQLite launch unified NoSQL query language
Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for t...
Article | 28/07/2011 SAP co-CEO McDermott talks up HANA, mobility and SaaS
SAP has seen software sales rebound steadily after a dip during the global recession, and is hoping to supercharge its business with forays into in-me...
Article | 26/07/2011 Oracle gives sneak peek at MySQL 5.6 features
Oracle on Monday announced a sneak peak at features slated for MySQL 5.6, the next version of its open-source database, that focus on improved scalabi...
Article | 7/07/2011 SAP's Sybase adds scalability to IQ analytic database
SAP's Sybase division announced the latest version of its IQ columnar database on Thursday, a release focused on providing enough scalability to allow...
Article | 30/06/2011 EnterpriseDB adds HP-UX support
Version 9.0 of EnterpriseDB's Oracle-compatible database is now available, with new support for Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX operating system, the company ...
Article | 29/06/2011 Oracle aims 'Exastack' program at ISVs
Oracle is hoping to convince independent software vendors to certify and run their products on its high-end Exadata and Exalogic appliances through a ...
Article | 24/06/2011 Four companies rethink databases for the cloud
Several companies are developing new database technologies to solve what they see as the shortcomings of traditional, relational database management s...
Article | 21/06/2011 SAP's HANA in-memory analytics engine now available
SAP's HANA (high performance analytic appliance) in-memory computing engine went into general availability on Monday, giving the vendor a flashy new w...