Category: Industry Trends

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Matt Wolpin. Last week, Hazelcast earned a coveted spot on the list of Red Herring’s Top 100 North America private technology companies. Make no mistake, there was nothing fishy or misleading about this honor. Ok, enough of the “red herring” puns. If you’re not familiar with Red Herring, it is a global media organization aimed at uniting the world of high-tech innovators, venture capital investors, and business makers. For more than two decades, the publication and Alex Vieux, its current CEO and Chairman, have covered the technology sector with the goal of impacting the global ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. With the arrival of the cloud, organizations face new opportunities – and new challenges. Chief among them is how to take the greatest advantage of public and private cloud resources without being locked into a specific cloud or being barred from access to existing infrastructure. Container solutions such as Docker offer part of the solution, making it much easier to develop, deploy, and manage software. In our webinar, product manager Micah Bahti describes how to take advantage of the next step: Using Kubernetes, and the MemSQL Kubernetes Operator, to manage containers across public clouds ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. After a lot of planning, coding and testing we can finally share the first Release Candidate of ArangoDB 3.5 with you today. You can get it on our Technical Preview Download page: Tech Preview Community & Tech Preview Enterprise. With this RC, we want to highlight two new features for all graph database enthusiasts: the new PRUNE Keyword & k Shortest Path Feature. As always, please note Release Candidates are for testing purposes only and should not be used in production. Please see limitations of RC1 at the bottom of the page! If ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Dan Ortega. Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a concept has been around since the development of computational devices, as early as the creation of Turing machines during World War II. The term itself was first coined by University of Washington professor John McCarthy in 1956, and now, 60+ years later we see the actual commercialization of AI. Why now, and what has finally enabled this? AI is designed to process and interpret vast sums of data (aka Big Data), and while humanity has always generated a lot of data, the volumes in the last few years ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Mike Boyarski. MemSQL has spent the last six years on a single mission: developing the fastest, most capable database on the market for a new generation of workloads. Today’s businesses are beginning to win or lose on their ability to use data to create competitive advantage, and technology teams at these companies need data infrastructure that can meet an increasingly broad set of requirements, perform well at scale, and fit easily with existing processes and tools. MemSQL 6.8 is the latest release of the database that meets this challenge. Whether accelerating and simplifying the use of ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Jacky Liang. Many companies, including our customers, have invested heavily in Hadoop infrastructure. In a recent blog post, we explored the topic of hype when it came to enterprises deploying Hadoop across their organizations, and ultimately where Hadoop falls short for certain use cases. Using MemSQL, many of our customers have been able to augment Hadoop using our HDFS pipelines feature, allowing them to quickly ingest from the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and perform analysis of their data in real time. With MemSQL 6.8, we are happy to announce our support for Kerberos and wire ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Eric Hanson. In this blog post, I’ll focus on new query processing capabilities in MemSQL 6.8. The marquee query feature is just-in-time (JIT) compilation, which speeds up query runtimes on the first run of a query – now turned on by default. We have also improved performance of certain right and left outer joins and related operations, and Rollup and Cube. In addition, we add convenience features, including sub-select without an alias, and extended Oracle compatibility for date and time handling functions. Finally, new array functions for splitting strings and converting JSON data are added. Other ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Jacky Liang. In this blog post, part one of a two-part series, we look at the state of Hadoop from a macro perspective. In the second part of this series, we will look at how Hadoop and MemSQL can work together to solve many of the problems described here. 2008 was a big year for Apache Hadoop. It appeared organizations had finally found the panacea for working with exploding quantities of data with the rise of mobile and desktop web. Yahoo launched the world’s largest Apache Hadoop production application. They also won the “terabyte sort” benchmark, ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Kyle Davis. The Helicoprion is a now extinct but strange animal that roamed the seas of the early Permian. It looks more or less similar in both size and shape to a contemporary Great White Shark. Most likely, it was a formidable predatory of the seas. The thing that set it apart was that it had a “Tooth-whorl,” which is somewhat akin to having a shark teeth circular saw located inside the lower jaw. Seems like it would be a good idea, but evolution had a different idea and we don’t have any existent animals like ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Hazelcast Community. On Monday, Speedment and Hazelcast announced a partnership focused on accelerating application development when deploying an in-memory data grid alongside legacy databases. The following post was written by Speedment’s CTO, Per-Åke Minborg. What if you want to use a Hazelcast In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) to speed up your database applications, but you have hundreds of tables to handle? Manually coding all Java POJOs and serialization support would entail weeks of work and when done, maintaining that domain model by hand would soon turn into a nightmare. Now there is a graceful way to ... Read More