The New York Times Technology blog article features a company founded by a couple ex-Googlers called Climate Corporation. Their company is built on making use of the free data published by the National Weather Service. They started by using the data to sell insurance to companies dependent on the weather like farmers and ski resorts. They’ve expanded their data sources and now focus more on the agriculture market.
Sep 22
DataStax has just announced an $11M investment from Crosslink Capital and Lightspeed Ventures. DataStax makes products to use with NoSQL database, Cassandra. If you’re wondering what NoSQL is, check out NoSQL-Database.org. Check out the VentureBeat article for more about the investment.
Sep 21
Neo Technology has raised $10.6M to aid their development of a NoSQL database. Check out the Techcrunch article.
Sep 05
The National Security Agency (NSA) has just made a new submission to the Apache Foundation. It’s called Accumulo, and it is a key/value data store based on the BigTable paper. It runs on top of Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift.
Jul 28
The raw global temperature data set from the World Meteorological Organization is now available for download. BBC article.
May 16
When talking about data and the storage of data these days, you’ll often hear the terms “structured” and “unstructured”. Monash Research (DBMS2) has an interesting post on the topic.
Mar 04
There’s been a lot of consolidation in the database space recently and that continued today with Teradata announcing its acquisition of Aster Data for $263M. Check out the Aster Data press release.
Here’s the recap from DBMS2 and one from Techcrunch.
Feb 15
There has been lots of consolidation in the database space recently with EMC acquiring Greenplum, IBM acquiring Netezza, and now HP acquires Vertica. Check out the Techcrunch article for the details.
Oct 17
There’s a new community data project from Old Weather to data enter information from historical ships’ log books from around the time of World War I to give a better view of climate change and improve climate models.
Sep 21
Check out the release details at the Postgres site.
