Category: Business Insights
Welcome to the party, DynamoDB
What does the arrival of DynamoDB mean for NoSQL -- and Acunu?
The Hadoop Universe
An article about the solar system of tools around Hadoop
What can we learn from the latest AWS failure?
Amazon Web Services, which _is_ the cloud as far as many people are concerned, has suffered another outage. On August 7th, a power failure in Dublin took out the power ...
CassandraSF Roundup
I recently attended CassandraSF in San Francisco and the massive increase in attendance over 2010 demonstrated how quickly Cassandra is gaining traction in the Big Data market. The presentations were ...
Chaos monkeys, the rise of the developer and the end of the DBA: Field notes from CassandraSF
I’ve had a great week at the Cassandra Summit in San Francisco. Here are some notes on how the Cassandra community is changing and, more generally, what this means ...
Could Big Data damage Oracle?
I’ve seen the future and Exadata is not the answer.
The Complexities of Licensing
Open source software licences are subtle beasts, which seek to grant rights to redistribute, modify or perhaps even sell software, while at the same time imposing certain restrictions on those ...
NoSQL as a service
Is there room in the Cloud for NoSQL? Is the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market saturated already?
According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Cloud Computing is at the peak of inflated expectations. Just ...