Thursday, December 30, 2010

Machine vs. human generated data

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Curt Monash has recently been discussing the differences between machine-generated data and human-generated data, and trying to define thes...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL

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(This post is coauthored by Alexander Thomson and Daniel Abadi ) It is a poorly kept secret that NoSQL is not really about eliminating SQL ...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Thoughts on Kickfire’s apparent demise

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There have been some recent conflicting reports on the future prospects of Kickfire’s analytical database technology. Forbes reported a coup...
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Quick thoughts on EMC acquiring Greenplum

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EMC announced today that they are acquiring Greenplum. Below are the first thoughts that crossed my mind when I heard about this deal. Cong...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Problems with CAP, and Yahoo’s little known NoSQL system

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Over the past few weeks, in my advanced database system implementation class I teach at Yale, I’ve been covering the CAP theorem, its implic...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Distinguishing Two Major Types of Column-Stores

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I have noticed that Bigtable , HBase , Hypertable , and Cassandra are being called column-stores with increasing frequency (e.g. here , here...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

New England Database Summit 2010 Program

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I just finished putting together the program for New England Database Summit, 2010 (thanks to the PC: Yanlei Diao , Olga Papaemmanouil , and...
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