Cray opens EMEA headquarters
Cray sees the convergence of HPC (high performance computing) and big data.
Consolidating graphs and other matters
The graph database market is starting to consolidate. There are also interesting graph and associative database developments
SQL on Hadoop
You need a good optimiser to get decent SQL performance from Hadoop.
Big data storage options
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 NoSQL
Adding SQL to a NoSQL database will only be of limited value unless you also have a database optimiser
Cassandra and Hadoop
You can combine DataStax's distribution of Cassandra on the same cluster as Hadoop
Hadapt - Hadapt is the latest big data database offering
What makes Hadapt different is that it combines both Hadoop-based and relational storage
IBM, Hadoop, Initiate and other things
A roundup of things that took my interest at IoD Rome