NoSQL Databases - What's Innovative?

Ontotext is introducing SQL support to enable easier access to GraphDB, as well as visual migration support from relational databases.

InterSystems is worthy of more attention

Declarative languages are becoming more and more prevalent for NoSQL

Companies are already making announcements ahead of next week's Strata conference.

Cray has announced a pre-built but open (i.e. not quite an appliance) Hadoop implementation. It raise questions about what Hadoop means.

Spark is the next big thing for Hadoop but is it too much too soon?

Aerospike is an in-memory, transaction oriented, NoSQL database.

Tokutek has released an Enterprise Edition of its MongoDB product

IBM announces a raft of big data enhancements and products but forgets to mention DB2!

Will appliances take over the Hadoop marketplace and, if so, what will be the fallout?

It's all too easy to think that all noSQL vendors fall into the same camp. MarkLogic is a notable exception.

HPCC from Lexis Nexis looks like a better alternative to Hadoop

RainStor has just announced support for Hadoop, whereby you can use RainStor partitions within HDFS. This brings a number of advantages.

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

NewSQL databases have new architectures but are designed specifically for OLTP, supporting SQL

Hive and Hadoop both have poor performance - Pervasive SOftware, with its DataRush technology, is doing something about that