Updated: 2011-11-08 07:10:03
It’s time for me to try to define “operational analytics”. Clues pointing me to that need include: The term investigative analytics has gotten considerable traction. I generally contrast “investigative” and “operational” analytics, for example in the last line of the post linked above, or in my recent introduction to Odiago WibiData. It’s clear that I’m [...]
Updated: 2011-11-08 05:40:10
I’ve talked with my clients at Hadapt a couple of times recently. News highlights include: The Hadapt 1.0 product is going “Early Access” today. General availability of Hadapt 1.0 is targeted for an officially unspecified time frame, but it’s soon. Hadapt raised a nice round of venture capital. Hadapt added Sharmila Mulligan to the board. [...]
Updated: 2011-11-06 07:58:00
15 librarians, a driver named Lazaro, and a tour guide named Jesus. (No, really. Would I kid you about such an important trip … ?) I just need to condense one of the most amazing weeks of my life into a blog post. (Good thing I don’t use Twitter!)
Updated: 2011-11-04 06:01:25
When my electric power came back on but my Verizon FiOS internet connection didn’t, it was time for a mobile hotspot/prepaid wireless internet service. T-Mobile’s 4G Mobile Hotspot/Prepaid Mobile Broadband offering seemed like a good choice. But the experience of setting it up was a nightmare, and a possible instructive nightmare at that. T-Mobile’s instructions [...]
Updated: 2011-11-04 00:58:06
It’s time to circle back to a subject I skipped when I otherwise wrote about MarkLogic 5: MarkLogic’s new Hadoop connector. Most of what’s confusing about the MarkLogic Hadoop Connector lies in two pairs of options it presents you: Hadoop can talk XQuery to MarkLogic. But alternatively, Hadoop can use a long-established simple(r) Java API [...]
Updated: 2011-11-02 15:05:01
Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball have a new company. It’s called Odiago, and is one of my gratifyingly more numerous tiny clients. Odiago’s product line is called WibiData, after the justly popular We Be Sushi restaurants. We’ve agreed on a split exclusive de-stealthing launch. You can read about the company/founder/investor stuff on TechCrunch. But this [...]
Updated: 2011-11-01 04:03:59
MarkLogic is releasing MarkLogic 5. Key elements of the announcement are: More-of-the-same in line with MarkLogic’s core positioning. A new bi-directional Hadoop connector. A free MarkLogic Express edition, limited in license terms more than in actual features, as per Slide 27 of the deck MarkLogic graciously supplied for me to post. Also, MarkLogic is early [...]
Updated: 2011-10-25 22:53:31
I’ve chatted with Datameer a couple of times recently, mainly with CEO Stefan Groschupf, most recently after XLDB last Tuesday. Nothing I learned greatly contradicts what I wrote about Datameer 1 1/2 years ago. In a nutshell, Datameer is designed to let you do simple stuff on large amounts of data, where “large amounts of [...]
Updated: 2011-10-24 05:20:27
Last week I visited with James Phillips of Couchbase, Max Schireson and Eliot Horowitz of 10gen, and Todd Lipcon, Eric Sammer, and Omer Trajman of Cloudera. I guess it’s time for a round-up NoSQL post. Views of the NoSQL market horse race are reasonably consistent, with perhaps some elements of “Where you stand depends upon [...]
Updated: 2011-10-24 05:19:09
There’s a perception that, if you want (relatively) worry-free database scale-out, you need a non-relational/NoSQL strategy. That perception is false. In the analytic case it’s completely ridiculous, as has been demonstrated by Teradata, Vertica, Netezza, and various other MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) analytic DBMS vendors. And now it’s false for short-request/OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) use [...]
Updated: 2011-10-24 05:18:11
Schooner Information Technology started out as a complete-system MySQL appliance vendor. Then Schooner went software-only, but continued to brag about great performance in configurations with solid-state drives. Now Schooner has pivoted further, and is emphasizing high availability, clustered performance, and other hardware-agnostic OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) features. Fortunately, Schooner has some interesting stuff in those [...]
