September 13, 2013
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Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle’s MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for its fork, MariaDB. Major Websites, such as Wikipedia, have also replaced … Continue reading
September 9, 2013
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When you think about open-source database management systems (DBMS), you probably think about Oracle’s MySQL and its great rival/fork MariaDB. That’s thinking too small. There’s another great, enterprise capable DBMS, PostgreSQL, and its latest, greatest release PostgreSQL 9.3, has just … Continue reading
September 4, 2013
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In 2008, Facebook gave big data users a gift. The social network released Cassandra, its NoSQL, big data distributed data store to open source. Today, with the release of Cassandra 2.0, the gift is more valuable than ever. Cassandra 2.0: … Continue reading
August 6, 2013
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You can’t claim that the Apache Drill programmers think small. Their design goal is for Drill to scale to 10,000 servers or more and to process petabyes of data and trillions of records in less than a second. If this … Continue reading
August 6, 2013
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Apache’s Drill goal is striving to do nothing less than answer queries from petabytes of data and trillions of records in less than a second. You can’t claim that the Apache Drill programmers think small. Their design goal is for … Continue reading
July 10, 2013
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Is Red Hat switching from Oracle‘s MySQL to MariaDB for its default database management system (DBMS) in its next major operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? Officially, Red Hat hasn’t decided to switch to MariaDB. Unofficially, it appears to … Continue reading