Oracle has just announced their Big Data Appliance in this press release. There’s some NoSQL stuff in there related to Oracle’s ownership of Berkeley DB. There’s some Hadoop stuff in there. And there’s some R stuff too.
Check out the post on the O’Reilly radar blog for more info.
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.
Neo Technology has raised $10.6M to aid their development of a NoSQL database. Check out the Techcrunch article.
Here’s a post from the Netflix Tech blog talking about their usage of NOsql technologies including Amazon SimpleDB, Hadoop, HBase, and Cassandra. Of special interest was the mention of Datastax, a company offering commercial support for Cassandra.
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.
