I’ll be providing an overview of the origins of the term NewSQL, its adoption, and a discussion of the core technologies that we see fitting into the category, as well as an explanation of the key considerations for choosing between NoSQL and NewSQL databases.

Other webinar participants include Robin Purohit, Clustrix president and CEO; and Aaron Passey, Clustrix CTO, and there will also be a presentation by Massive Media, which recently announced that it has used Clustrix to build and grow Twoo, a social networking site, to more than four million users in only six months without sharding the application and without any downtime.

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* SAP to Arm Small and Midsize Enterprises With Real-Time Analytics Powered by SAP HANA

* Hadoop startup WibiData raises $5M to power web analytics

* Zimory Acquires Database Development Team from Sones

* Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Advanced Analytics for Big Data

* Kalido Fuels Growth with New Customers, Market Leading Data Governance Capabilities in 2011

* Xeround Announces Free Version of Popular Cloud Database

* Hypertable Inc. Announces New Products and Services for Next Generation Hadoop NoSQL Database Deployments

* Cloudera Connector for Tableau Has Been Released

* Information Builders Launches WebFOCUS Hyperstage to Speed Performance and Delivery of Business Intelligence

* Actian Releases Vectorwise Workgroup Edition, Claims Best in Affordable Big Data Analytics to Mid-Market

* 10gen and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Leading NoSQL Solution to Government Sector

* MySQL progress in a year

* Endeca CEO: We wanted IPO, but Oracle acquisition gave peace of mind

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# Cloudant seizes opportunity for greater involvement with CouchDB Market Development report

# Xeround details cloud database pricing, launches free option Market Development report

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* Revolution Analytics Names David Rich New CEO

* Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Capabilities to Further Fuel Widespread Adoption

* EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support

* Actuate Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results

* Sumo Logic Raises $15M Series B Round for Next Generation Log Management and Analytics

* Announcing Oracle R Enterprise 1.0

* Paul Cormier Joins Hortonworks’ Board of Directors

* DataStax Launches First Complete Solution for Cassandra Development on Windows and Mac

* Latest Release of Kalido Information Engine Eliminates Data Mart Migration and Consolidation Hassles

* Karmasphere Brings More Power, Collaboration, and Faster Insights to Big Data Analytics Teams on Hadoop

* Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty

* SAP HANA – slowly moving out of hype into actual projects

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# Actuate gets ready to go shopping in the ‘big data’ mall Acquirer IQ

# Couchbase cites enterprise adoption, clarifies distributed NoSQL database strategy Impact report

# SpagoBI illuminates 2012 roadmap, takes open source model to US, Latin America Impact report

# Customer data analysis provider nPario combines big data and smart segmentation Impact report

# Tableau details 2012 growth strategy, gets semantic for visual analytics Market development report

# EMC integrates re-branded Hadoop distribution with Isilon NAS Market development report

# Quiterian seeks funding for new customer analytics in the cloud focus Market development report

# Hortonworks refines its commercial strategy for Apache Hadoop Market development report

# Digital Reasoning pledges to automate the analysis of complex data Market development report

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The response has been great and even a quick look at the results makes for interesting reading, particularly in the light of our previous findings which indicated declining MySQL usage.

I am really looking forward to having the opportunity for a deep dive into the results and break out the figures to get a better understanding of the potential impact of alternative MySQL distribution and support providers, as well as NoSQL and NewSQL, on continued usage of MySQL.

The survey results will be made freely available on our blogs, as well as being included in a long format report containing our additional analysis and research related to the MySQL ecosystem and competitive dynamic.

Right now, however, is your last chance to contribute to the survey and get your voice heard. There are just 12 questions to answer, spread over four pages, and the entire survey should take no longer than five minutes to complete. All individual responses are of course confidential.

The survey will close in 24 hours.

Specifically, EMC has enabled the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as a native protocol supported on OneFS in addition to Network File System (NFS) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) support, enabling Isilon systems to provide the underlying storage layer for Hadoop processing, as well as a common storage pool for Hadoop and other systems.

EMC is talking up the benefits of combining Isilon with Greenplum HD. For the record, that’s the Hadoop distribution previously known as Greenplum HD Community Edition, based on the Apache Hadoop 0.20.1 code branch.

Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition, based on MapR Technologies’ M5 distribution, is now known as Greenplum MR, and is not supported by Isilon due to the fact that it replaces HDFS with Direct Access NFS.

EMC notes that Greenplum MR is being positioned as a high-performance Hadoop offering for customers that have failed to achieve their required performance from other distributions.

While EMC is quick to maintain its happiness with the MapR relationship and its commitment to Greenplum MR, it’s clear that tight integration with Isilon, particularly in the EMC Greenplum DCA, will result in an expanded role for Greenplum HD.

Additionally, while the company’s Greenplum Command Center provides unified management for the Greenplum Database, Greenplum HD and Greenplum Chorus as part of the recently announced Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), MapR has its own management and monitoring functionality.

Since we expect EMC to pitch the benefits of integrated software in UAP and software and hardware in DCA, it is now clear that Greenplum HD, rather than the Greenplum MR, is considered the company’s primary Hadoop distribution.

Given Greenplum HD’s starring role in the Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), Data Computing Appliance (DCA) and integration with Isilon, Greenplum MR’s role is likely to become increasingly niche.

There are a couple of differences between our slide and Koji Kawamura’s:

Ours contains an extra layer of names (e.g. “Elastic Couchbase”) that were briefly used by Couchbase in discussion and I believe in marketing, although never for shipping product.

Also ours doesn’t mention memcached. It could be on there given that Membase is based on it, and Couchbase Server can still be deployed in “memcached only mode”, but in that sense it is a feature of Membase/Couchbase Server. And anyway, I couldn’t fit it on

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* Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Storage Gateway to Connect Enterprise Data with the Cloud

* EnterpriseDB Announces Availability of Postgres Plus Cloud Database

* Big VCs Invest In Big Data Startup Continuuity

* At Davos, Discussions of a Global Data Deluge

* Zimory Names New Head of zimory®scale; the Cloud Database Elasticity Division

* Jaspersoft’s Java Reporting Engine Integrated with Cloud Foundry

* IBM Debuts New Analytics Appliance to Help Retailers Transform Big Data Into Business Opportunities

* The Mass Technology Leadership Council published its report on big data and analytics.

* Apache HBase 0.92.0 has been released

* Is Security An Afterthought For NoSQL?

* What’s the big deal about Big Data?

* Hadoop Summit 2012 Announced to Showcase Apache Hadoop as Next Generation Enterprise Data Platform

* Announcing BigCouch 0.4

* Microsoft’s plan for Hadoop and big data

* Google Goes MoreSQL With Tenzing – SQL Over MapReduce

* Seismic Data Science: Reflection Seismology and Hadoop

* GoodData Posts Record-Breaking 600% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth In 2011

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# 2012 M&A Outlook – Software Assessing the runners and riders for M&A and IPOs in 2012

# RJMetrics scores $1.2m debt funding, sets out SaaS BI stall Impact report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: Pork Tenderloin: A Healthy Eating Hero

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The 93 page report provides an outlook and assessment across all 451 Research technology sectors and practice areas – including software infrastructure, cloud enablement, hosting, security, datacenter technologies, hardware, information management, mobility, networking and eco-efficient IT – with input from our team of 40+ analysts. The 2012 Previews report is available upon request here.

IM research director Simon Robinson has already provided a taster of our predictions as they relate to the information-centric landscape. Below I have outlined some of our core predictions related to the data-centric ecosystem:

The overall trend predicted for 2012 could best be described as the shifting focus from volume, velocity and velocity, to delivering value. Out concept of Total Data reflects the path from velocity and variety of information sources to the all-important endgame of deriving value from data. We expect to see increased interest in data integration and analytics technologies and approaches designed specifically to exploit the potential benefits of ‘big data’ and mainstream adoption of Hadoop and other new sources of data.

We also anticipate, and are beginning to see, increased focus on technologies that enable access to data in different storage platforms without requiring data movement. We believe there is an emerging role for what we are calling the ‘data hub‘ – an independent platform that is responsible for managing access to data on the various data storage and processing technologies.

Increased understanding of the value of analytics will also increase interest in the integration of analytics into operational applications. Embedded analytics is nothing new, but has the potential to achieve mainstream adoption this year as the dominant purveyors of applications used to run operations are increasingly focused on serving up embedded analytics as a key component within their product portfolios. Equally importantly, many of them now have database platforms capable of uniting previously disparate technologies to deliver true embedded analysis.

There has been a growing recognition over the past year or so that any type of data management project – whether focused on master data management (MDM), data or application integration, or data quality – needs to bring real benefits to business processes. Some may see this assertion as obvious and pretty easy to achieve, but that’s not necessarily the case. However, it is likely to become more so in the next 12-18 months as companies realize a process-driven approach to most data management programs makes sense and vendors deliver capabilities to meet this demand.

While ‘big data’ presents a number of opportunities, it also poses many challenges, not the least of which is the lack of developers, managers, analysts and scientists with analytics skills. The users and investors placing a bet on the opportunities offered by new data management products are unlikely to be laughing if it turns out that they cannot employ people to deploy, manage and run those products, or analysts to make sense of the data they produce. It is not surprising that, therefore, the vendors that supply those technologies are investing in ensuring that there is a competent workforce to support existing and new projects.

Finally, while cloud computing may be one of the technology industry’s hot topics, it has had relatively little impact on the data management sector to date. That is not to say that databases are not available on cloud computing platforms, but we must make a distinction between databases that are deployed in public clouds, and ‘cloud databases‘ that have the potential to fulfil the role of emerging databases in building private and hybrid clouds. The former have been available for many years. The latter are just beginning to come to fruition based on NoSQL databases, as well as a new breed of NewSQL relational databases, designed to meet the performance, scalability and flexibility needs of large-scale data processing.

451 Research clients can get more details of these specific predictions via our 2012 preview – Information Management, Part 2. Non-clients can apply for trial access at the same link, while the entire 2012 Previews report is available here.

Also, mark your diaries for a webinar discussing report highlights on Thursday Feb 9 at noon ET, which will be open for clients and non-clients to attend. Registration details to follow soon…

Here are a selection of key takeaways from the first part of the Information Management preview, which focuses on information governance, ediscovery, search, collaboration and file sharing. (Matt Aslett will be posting highlights of part 2, which focuses more on data management and analytics, shortly.)

• One of the most obvious common themes that will continue to influence technology spending decisions in the coming year is the impact of continued explosive data and information growth.  This  continues to shape new legal frameworks and technology stacks around information governance and e-discovery, as well as to drive a new breed of applications growing up around what we term the ‘Total Data’ landscape.

• Data volumes and distributed data drive the need for more automation and auto-classification capabilities will continue to emerge more successfully in e-discovery, information governance and data protection veins — indeed, we expect to see more intersection between these, as we noted in a recent post.

• The maturing of the cloud model – especially as it relates to file sharing and collaboration, but also from a more structured database perspective – will drive new opportunities and challenges for IT professionals in the coming year.  Looks like 2012 may be the year of ‘Dropbox for the enterprise.’

• One of the big emerging issues that rose to the fore in 2011, and is bound to get more attention as the New Year proceeds, is around the dearth of IT and business skills in some of these areas, without which the industry at large will struggle to harness and truly exploit the attendant opportunities.

• The changes in information management in recent years have encouraged (or forced) collaboration between IT departments, as well as between IT and other functions. Although this highlights that many of the issues here are as much about people and processes as they are about technology, the organizations able to leap ahead in 2012 will be those that can most effectively manage the interaction of all three.

• We also see more movement of underlying information management infrastructures into the applications arena.  This is true with search-based applications, as well as in the Web-experience management vein, which moves beyond pure Web content management.  And while Microsoft SharePoint continues to gain adoption as a base layer of content-management infrastructure, there is also growth in the ISV community that can extend SharePoint into different areas at the application-level.

There is a lot more in the report about proposed changes in the e-discovery arena, advances of the cloud, enterprise search and impact of mobile devices and bring-your-device-to-work on information management.

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* Thoughts on the Splunk IPO and S-1 By Dave Kellogg.

* Thoughts on SimpleDB, DynamoDB and Cassandra By Adrian Cockcroft.

* Recommind’s Revenue Leaps 95% in Record-Setting 2011 Predictable.

* Hewlett-Packard Expands to Cambridge via Vertica’s “Big Data” Center Moving.

* Announcing SkySQL Enterprise HA for the MariaDB & MySQL databases

* Membase Server is Now Couchbase Server But not *the* Couchbase Server.

* Cloudera Teams With O’Reilly Media to Merge Hadoop World and Strata Conferences

* Survey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with data 100 Strata Online Conference attendees.

* Big data market survey: Hadoop solutions

* LinkedIn released SenseiDB, an open source distributed, realtime, semi-structured database.

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# VMware: not your father’s database company Impact Report

# Sparsity Technologies draws up plans for graph database adoption Impact Report

# Amazon launches DynamoDB, an auto-configuring database as a service Market Development report

# NuoDB targets Q2 release for elastic relational database Market Development report

# ADVIZOR illuminates growth strategy, roadmap in data discovery and analysis Market Development report

# Birst adds own analytic engine for BI, OEM agreement with ParAccel Market Development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: RentAGrandma.com Recruiting Wonderful Grandmas

And that’s the Data Day, today.