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Article | 3/05/2011 Couchbase offers NoSQL for iPhone
Introducing NoSQL to the world of mobile applications, Couchbase has released a beta version of its CouchDB non-relational database for the iPhone iOS...
Article | 30/04/2011 Teradata, Information Builders roll out BI appliance
Teradata and Information Builders have developed a data warehousing package that bundles the latter's WebFOCUS BI (business intelligence) software wit...
Article | 12/04/2011 Cloudera expands Hadoop ecosystem
With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework.
Article | 9/04/2011 BMC supercharges IBM DB2 for mainframes
Exploiting recent hardware enhancements that IBM added into its System z mainframe servers, enterprise software provider BMC has updated its line of p...
Article | 6/04/2011 Microsoft researchers: NoSQL needs standardization
The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new is...
Article | 5/04/2011 Oracle releases beta for Express Edition of 11g database
Oracle 11g Express Edition (XE), the free-of-charge version of Oracle's flagship database, is now in beta.
Article | 30/03/2011 Savvier job scheduling with Platform, Terracotta updates
Enterprise servers may get a lot busier, at least if their administrators adopt one of two freshly upgraded job schedulers, both of which promise grea...
Article | 30/03/2011 Startup looks to poach Oracle customers after Itanium move
Oracle's announcement last week that it will stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processor has database startup EnterpriseDB looking to capit...
Article | 29/03/2011 Kaminario releases $50K DRAM storage appliance
Kaminario today released a new, lower-end version of its K2 DRAM Storage Appliance, dropping the multi-million dollar price tag to $50,000 for an entr...
Article | 25/03/2011 Hadoop and Cassandra to merge in DataStax distro
Uniting the seemingly conflicting values of fast data access and deep analysis, open-source software company DataStax is developing a package that wil...
Article | 24/03/2011 MySQL gets live schema updating with Tokutek engine
Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company <a href="http://tokutek.com/2011...
Article | 18/03/2011 Internet databases MongoDB, Drizzle upgraded
Two performance-minded databases created for supporting Internet services and cloud computing have been revised: MongoDB has been updated and Drizzle ...
Article | 16/03/2011 Oracle goes after Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL
Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft's SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 per cent cost savings ...
Article | 10/03/2011 Ingres rolls out cloud database offerings
Database vendor Ingres is targeting public and private clouds, announcing on Wednesday three managed services for application development, storage and...
Article | 9/03/2011 RainStor releases next-gen big data repository
RainStor today announced the next generation of its online data repository. The update adds data deduplication capabilities and improved optimization ...