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Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, announces the launch of their new cloud based relational database – the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

Database vendor, Greenplum, is now offering a free download of the single node version of its database. It is available for several different operating systems. Here’s a DBMS2 article with some more information.
In another DBMS2 article, there’s some information about the pace of Greenplum’s recent customer acquisitions which bring it to 100+ as [...]

Vertica has been touting the values of the columnar data store over the more traditional row structure of a database. Now Greenplum is offering its own column structure. The twist is that Greenplum allows for both row and column structures within the same database. Check out more information in this DBMS2 article.

Boing Boing explains how Google is making it easier to get your data off the Google system an on to your own or to a competitor.

Slashdot reports that Google is working on overhauling its now 10 year old Google File System (GFS).

San Francisco follows the federal government by allowing access to some of its data sets. DataSF.org is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. Here’s the Techcrunch article written by Mayor Gavin Newsom with all the details.

Monash Research has a couple new posts about Netezza…
Netezza is Changing its Hardware Architecture and Slashing Prices Accordingly
The Netezza Price Point

NoSQL is about open source, distributed, non-relational databases. At a recent meetup in San Francisco, some of the following new technologies were discussed…
Voldemort
Cassandra
Dynomite
HBase
Hypertable
CouchDB
Here’s a ComputerWorld article with more info.

Socrata.com is a new site that allows users to share public data sets and build a community around them.

Google Labs announced a new product today, Google Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables is about collaborating with others around data. Merge data sources, discuss the data, visualize, and publish to the web. Take a tour of Google Fusion Tables or read the post from the Google Research Blog.