NoSQL Databases

Pentaho and 10gen Collaborate to Integrate MongoDB in Enterprise Architectures

Derek Stainer — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:05:48 +0000

New Partnership Combines Pentaho’s Cutting Edge Data Integration and Visualization Tools
with Leading NoSQL Technology MongoDB

MongoNYC, New York, NY— May 23, 2012 — Pentaho Corporation, delivering the future of business analytics, and 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, today announced a partnership to provide direct integration between Pentaho Business Analytics and MongoDB. As enterprise data architectures continue to evolve, customers are looking to address rapidly changing multi-structured data and take advantage of cloud-like architectures. This alliance brings the data integration, data discovery and visualization capabilities of Pentaho to MongoDB. The native integration between Pentaho and MongoDB helps enterprises take advantage of the flexible, scalable data storage capabilities of MongoDB while ensuring compatibility and interoperability with existing data infrastructure.

Commercial Release of InfiniteGraph, the leading distributed and scalable graph database, is now available!

Derek Stainer — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:05:30 +0000

InfiniteGraph™ Enables Development of Next-Gen Applications that Connect the Dots on a Global Scale.

Sunnyvale, CA – August 16, 2011 – InfiniteGraph, the number one commercial, distributed and scalable graph database, is changing the world by enabling a new, cost effective, and efficient way of navigating multiple types of databases for discovery of deeper and more relevant intelligence, enabling real-time decision support. By being able to understand deeper, more complex relationships within existing and new data, companies can leverage social network analysis and business intelligence to achieve greater efficiencies and competitive advantage. InfiniteGraph can support any number of applications and systems around the analysis of relationships in big data, and does all of this across any number and size of data volumes, in real-time.

SkillsMatter CFP for 1st Annual NoSQL eXchange this November

Derek Stainer — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:00:55 +0000

Skills Matter is hosting the first annual NoSQL eXchange this November. Jim Webber has kindly agreed to be the Program Lead for this conference, and together we are working on a great day of learning and sharing of skills on NoSQL technologies.

SkillsMatter and 10gen Announce MongoUK is Back

Derek Stainer — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:00:24 +0000

Skills Matter and 10gen are very pleased to announce the popular MongoUK conference is back -- coming to London on September 19th! MongoUK is a one-day conference dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. The program is a work in progress, but will feature both introductory and advanced talks on MongoDB schema design, indexing, administration, replication, sharding... (follow #mongouk for program updates)

NoSQL Leader Couchbase Announces $14 Million Series C Funding

Derek Stainer — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:05:41 +0000

Rapid growth attracts investment led by Ignition Partners as demand for production-proven
NoSQL database solutions accelerates

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – August 10, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced it has secured $14 million in a Series C round of financing led by venture capital firm Ignition Partners with participation from the company’s existing investors Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, and North Bridge Venture Partners. The company has also reserved an additional $1 million for investment from strategic customers and partners. The new funding will be used to further invest in NoSQL product development, support the adoption and growth of Couchbase in enterprise organizations, and support international expansion.

We're Back!

Derek Stainer — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:00:26 +0000

So obviously I've been taking a little break from the site. Chalk it up to increased workload at my real job, it being summer and a one year old that has the ability to zap all remaining energy from me with the snap of a finger. Regardless, I'm back the sites back so let's get back to the news.

Cassandra SF 2011 is coming in July

Derek Stainer — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:00:08 +0000

DataStax announced a couple of days ago (I know I'm way behind with the times here) that the upcoming Cassandra SF 2011 will take place on Monday July 11th. Speakers will include Adrian Cockcraft from NetFlix, the CTO of DataStax Jonathan Ellis and many more

For details visit: Cassandra SF 2011

O'Reilly Velocity Conference Live Keynote Streaming

Derek Stainer — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:00:33 +0000

If you're like me you wanted to go to the O'Reilly Velocity Conference but things maybe didn't quite work out schedule wise. Lucky for both of us, and for the fact that we're a media partner for the event, O'Reilly is allowing us to stream the keynotes from the conference. The stream will be available after the jump.

Couchbase Announces Major Improvements to CouchDB

Derek Stainer — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:30:54 +0000

Couchbase, the company formed when CouchOne and Membase merged, has announced several performance improvements to the underlying CouchDB database.

According to their blog they achieved the following performance improvements:

Disk write performance gains. Bulk loading of documents is now two to three times (2x-3x) faster.

Acunu Releases Beta for Acunu Storage Platform

Derek Stainer — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:00:23 +0000

Acunu has just released in public beta the Acunu Storage Platform, which includes the Acunu Storage Core, a modified version of Apache Cassandra (back end modified to use the Acunu Storage Core), and an enterprise-level management stack for deploying and managing the entire system.