Cray opens EMEA headquarters15th June 2015Philip Howard Cray sees the convergence of HPC (high performance computing) and big data.
Consolidating graphs and other matters4th February 2015Philip Howard The graph database market is starting to consolidate. There are also interesting graph and associative database developments
SQL on Hadoop13th February 2014Philip Howard You need a good optimiser to get decent SQL performance from Hadoop.
Big data storage options4th April 2013Philip Howard If you implement a different database on top of Hadoop is it still Hadoop? If you replace the file system in Hadoop (or MongoDB) is still Hadoop?
SQL and NoSQL21st March 2013Philip Howard Adding SQL to a NoSQL database will only be of limited value unless you also have a database optimiser
Cassandra and Hadoop24th January 2012Philip Howard You can combine DataStax's distribution of Cassandra on the same cluster as Hadoop
Hadapt - Hadapt is the latest big data database offering23rd November 2011Philip Howard What makes Hadapt different is that it combines both Hadoop-based and relational storage
IBM, Hadoop, Initiate and other things2nd June 2010Philip Howard A roundup of things that took my interest at IoD Rome