Governance and Hadoop - Informatica has just released HParser21st November 2011Philip Howard There is a lack of governance around big data: Informatica is the first company (it won't be the last) to introduce a product to address this issue
Breakthrough and instrumented applications16th November 2011Philip Howard The sort of data that is common in big data scenarios can be exploited in other ways too
Informix revived14th November 2011Philip Howard Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications
NoSQL and NewSQL11th November 2011Philip Howard NewSQL databases have new architectures but are designed specifically for OLTP, supporting SQL
Hive, DataRush and Hadoop5th August 2011Philip Howard Hive and Hadoop both have poor performance - Pervasive SOftware, with its DataRush technology, is doing something about that
Connexica CXAIR16th June 2011Philip Howard CXAIR is a BI tool that supports queries against both structured and unstructured data
BI for hybrid (big) data14th June 2011Philip Howard How do you combine structured and unstructured data for query purposes?