Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends18th March 2013Philip Howard Will appliances take over the Hadoop marketplace and, if so, what will be the fallout?
If I haven’t heard of it it’s probably NoSQL!12th February 2013Philip Howard It's all too easy to think that all noSQL vendors fall into the same camp. MarkLogic is a notable exception.
HPCC: a Hadoop competitor or a data warehouse in its own right?14th June 2012Philip Howard HPCC from Lexis Nexis looks like a better alternative to Hadoop
Another choice for Hadoop19th January 2012Philip Howard RainStor has just announced support for Hadoop, whereby you can use RainStor partitions within HDFS. This brings a number of advantages.
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
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