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Can Yugabyte Modernize the Database Layer? Bill Cook Thinks So

It’s a conundrum that many database startups have yet to solve: Why does Oracle continue to dominate the space if its relational database is so out of step with the times? The software vendor that cracks the code will Read more…

MemSQL Giving Away Database for Four-Node Clusters

Everybody likes free stuff. Today MemSQL announced that it's getting into the free software market by giving away copies of its distributed relational database management system for clusters up to four nodes and 128GB of Read more…

The Future of Storage: Software

In the previous story in this series, we looked at innovations occurring in storage hardware. Now it's time to turn our attention to what's going on in storage software, where innovation continues to push the boundaries Read more…

Meet the Avant-Garde of New Relational Databases

In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the new "avant-garde" of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts of scalability and elastici Read more…

VoltDB Reaches Out to Hadoop for Fast Data Analytics

VoltDB has made a name for itself by building a fast in-memory distributed relational database that processes transactions and does some real-time analytics too. With today's launch of VoltDB version 5, the company is sm Read more…

Big Data Going to Waste, Study Finds

Organizations are able to take advantage of just a fraction of the data they’re collecting and storing, according to a study commissioned by VoltDB. The reason? A shocking lack of throughput in their operational databa Read more…

Why 1970s Database Technology Is Still Relevant Today

Max Schireson, chief executive of NoSQL database vendor MongoDB, started a heated conversation two weeks ago when he said that relational database technologies are on their way out because they're too old and ill-suited to handle today's big data processing needs. Not surprisingly, those comments rubbed members of the NewSQL database community the wrong way. Read more…

VoltDB Nabs $8 Million in VC Funding to Tackle IoT

VoltDB, the company behind the in-memory relational database of the same name, has completed a Series B funding round $8 million richer. The round was led by existing stakeholders Sigma Ventures and Kepha Partners, plus three new unnamed “strategic investors,” bringing the firm's total venture capital investment to $18.7 million. Read more…

Dassault Picks NuoDB to Back New Cloud Offerings

Upstart NewSQL database vendor NuoDB got a shot in the arm this week when it disclosed a multi-million dollar investment by CAD software developer Dassault Systèmes. The French software giant led the latest $14-million round of venture financing, and will rely on NuoDB's scale-out relational database technology to power one or more of its upcoming cloud offerings. Read more…

RDBMs: The Hot New Technology of 2014?

Selecting a database is a bit like picking a religion. There are pros and cons to each, and the discussions run hot and heavy. With the rise of the big data phenomenon, adherents to the NoSQL and NewSQL database camps have dominated the discussion. But the relational camp has worked hard to catch up in terms of technology, and now threatens to swing the pendulum the other way. Read more…

Clustrix Offers Free Downloads of NewSQL Database

NewSQL vendor Clustrix today posted its scale-out relational database on the Web for anybody to download. The free Clusterix Community Edition won't offer the scalability and high performance that Clustrix offers in its paid versions, but it could help boost sales of commercial editions, and help it gain traction among developers. Read more…

NuoDB Takes the Wraps Off Blackbirds Database

NewSQL database vendor NuoDB yestserday unveiled the version 2.0 release of its in-memory relational database. Codenamed Blackbirds, the updated database’s main new feature is the capability to support geo-distributed deployments, which allows customers to deploy a single database across multiple locations to boost availability and scalability. Read more…

MemSQL Bolsters Semi-Structured Chops of Its RDBMS

One of the hot areas in data analytics these days is fusing the worlds of structured and semi-structured data. There are many ways to analyze one or the other, but few platforms that do both well. MemSQL, a part of the NewSQL movement, this week made headway in its capability to store and analyze fast moving, semi-structured data by adding support for JSON data types to its SQL-based RDBMs. Read more…

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