Operational Databases - What's Changed?

SentryOne has acquired Pragmatic Works Software. This is unusually synergistic and non-overlapping.

Third party database providers are going to have some difficulty in persuading SAP that they can support S/4HANA

NuoDB is a very interesting product, both from a conceptual and an architectural point of view.

SAP has just released version 16 of what used to be Sybase ASE. This release is very much focused on big data for OLTP.

Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications

There are major questions about information management in SAP's acquisition of Sybase

We have no doubt that Caché offers better performance both for the developer and in production than comparable systems from much more well-known vendors.