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SkySQL bundles MariaDB and Galera Cluster for enterprises who want to move...
Helsinki-based database management firm SkySQL incorporates a bunch of the old MySQL crowd and wants to hammer Oracle hard with the MySQL fork MariaDB. When the company picked up $20 million in an...
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MariaDB outfit SkySQL takes on former HP public cloud manager as product chief
SkySQL, the Finnish database firm that wants to steal Oracle’s lunch with the MySQL fork MariaDB, has hired the former general manager of HP’s public cloud services as its new product chief. Roger Levy...
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Facebook — with help from Google, LinkedIn, Twitter — releases MySQL built to...
Facebook announced on Thursday a new open source project called WebScaleSQL. The technology — a branch of the incredibly popular MySQL database — already includes contributions from Google, LinkedIn...
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MariaDB adds NoSQL features to relational database roots
SkySQL has released new versions of MariaDB Enterprise and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster, promising that these editions will combine the consistency of traditional SQL database technology with the...
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Twitter details how new home-grown system coordinates data analytics
Twitter has unveiled its new real-time analytics orchestration system, dubbed TSAR (TimeSeries AggregatoR), that will help ease the burden of its engineers. The framework was designed for the purpose...
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Shocker: Lots of new product-and-feature news at AWS confab, but nary a price...
At AWS Re:Invent, Amazon may be signaling an end to the race to the bottom with lots of higher-end products and services, but not a mention of price cuts. There is another day to go, but still....
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All about AWS Re:invent and oh, some Hortonworks and Microsoft news too
Yes, there was a ton o' news out of Amazon's cloud conference, but also big Hadoop news in Hortonworks IPO plans and Microsoft continues its open-sourcey ways by opening up .NET to non-Windows types....
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Russia’s Runa Capital invests $3.4M in database firm MariaDB
Moscow-based Runa Capital has invested €3 million ($3.4 million) in MariaDB, the open-source database company that offers what began as a MySQL fork (Google and Wikipedia are big-name users). Runa,...
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Report: The importance of benchmarking clouds
Our library of 1700 research reports is available only to our subscribers. We occasionally release ones for our larger audience to benefit from. This is one such report. If you would like access to our...
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5 predictions on the future of databases (from a guy who knows databases)
Michael Stonebraker is a lightning rod in the database world. He knows his stuff, having helped create some of the most-popular database systems around — Postgres, Ingres and Vertica. One of his...
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