The big players are moving in for a piece of the big data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” NumerousContinue reading “Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer”
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Will AEP Replace RDBMS? A Dialogue With Charles Brett
Analytic Event Processing (AEP) is hot. But does it mean RDBMS begins to decline in importance? Charles Brett of C3B Consulting and I recently had a quick dialogue about it and came up with different conclusions. That conversation is reproduced here. It’s only the beginning – l hope you will weigh in with your thoughts.
What’s An Eigenbase?
The open source community is remarkable in many ways. For me, one of the most significant aspects of it is exactly that: it IS a community. It’s composed of people who communicate and share in deep and productive ways. One of the most interesting manifestations of that spirit I’ve run across is the Eigenbase project,Continue reading “What’s An Eigenbase?”
InfoSphere Streams Is A Game Changer
IBM has made it clear that InfoSphere Streams, the commercialized part of the System S research project that has been underway for some years, is a priority, and they are committing substantial investments to it. In fact, the release was hurried a bit, as I noted in my (hopefully) humorous post about naming for complex event processingContinue reading “InfoSphere Streams Is A Game Changer”
CEP: The Tech That Dare Not Speak Its Name
IBM has decided to go after the complex event processing (CEP) market with InfoSphere Streams a bit sooner than expected (by about a year, it seems.) The Product Formerly Known As System S (apologies to Prince – but at least it doesn’t have a weird symbol instead of a name) has been released into theContinue reading “CEP: The Tech That Dare Not Speak Its Name”