Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Neo Technology Commercializes Next Generation Graph Based Database. This is a very cool technology for specifics uses. The social networking example given in this article really show the amazing latency benefit one can get using Neo Technologies product. It is true that relational databases are not always the best answer, but definitely the most popular. [...]
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
A new startup leads by industry bigwigs called Vertica has developed a new grid-enabled, column-oriented relational
database management system (RDBMS) that runs on industry-standard,
Linux-based hardware. According to their site “The Vertica Database® provides extremely fast ad
hoc SQL query performance, even for very large databases, making it
well suited for:
Data warehousing
Data marts
Clickstream analysis
Fraud detection
Call detail analysis
Consumer customer analytics
Business [...]
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Although its an Alpha release MYSQL’s new storage engine called Falcon will provide a very good alternative for large Web 2.0 applications running on web farms. The article in InfoWorld points out that “the storage engine is geared for high-performance environments while still supporting transactional and logging requirements, according to MySQL.”
