Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others27th November 2014Philip Howard NuoDB's latest release lets users perform operational analytics on transactional data: seeing what is otherwise invisible (without a data warehouse)
Distributing MySQL databases16th October 2014Philip Howard ScaleBase provides the ability to distribute MySQL databases without change to existing applications.
How do you map a sphere to a plane?11th July 2014Philip Howard SpaceCurve looks like the sine qua non of geo-spatial databases.
The return of the associative database?1st July 2014Philip Howard An open source associative database project in the US means that this technology may be about to make a comeback.
BSP and Graphs21st January 2014Philip Howard Bulk Synchronous Parallel is a clustered low-cost solution (a la Hadoop) being adopted for graph databases and graph analytics
Teradata Aster 6.021st January 2014Philip Howard The latest release of Teradata Aster has some interesting graph capabilities
Oracle ups the storage ante26th September 2013Philip Howard Oracle has announced the ZS3, which integrates with Oracle Database 12c
BLU Acceleration25th April 2013Philip Howard BLU Acceleration provides significantly improved query performance in IBM DB2 data warehousing environments.
De-duplication in a graph database21st March 2013Philip Howard Could you use a graph database for matching? Yes, almost certainly. And, if so, how would that compete with data quality tools?
What exactly is in-memory?14th May 2012Philip Howard In-memory processing can be used for a lot of different things within data warehousing