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.
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.
Sep 21
Check out the release details at the Postgres site.
Oct 28
Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, announces the launch of their new cloud based relational database – the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
Oct 24
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 of this quarter.
And finally, here’s some information about Greenplum’s pricing: either subscription or perpetual.
Oct 17
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.
Apr 30
Who has the biggest database? Due to the increasing amount of behavioral information tracked during a web browsing session, some internet properties are starting to rack up some pretty hefty databases.
Ebay has a 6.5 petabyte Greenplum warehouse and a 2.5 petabyte Teradata warehouse. This system ingests hundreds of billions of new rows of data every day.
Facebook has a 2.5 petabyte Hadoop system
Yahoo has more than 1 petabyte running on their homemade system
