January 31, 2006

Computerworld on memory-centric data management

Computerworld recently ran an excellent story on memory-centric data management. The opening sentences show that correspondent Gary Anthes most definitely “gets it”:

Relational database management systems have become all but ubiquitous in enterprise computing since 1970, when they were first devised by E.F. Codd. But as powerful and flexible as those databases are, they’ve proved inadequate for a handful of ultrademanding applications that have to process hundreds or thousands of transactions per second and never go down.

I’m quoted in one of the sidebars, but with the core article being this good I didn’t really add much.

Incidentally, the article talked a lot about Oracle’s recently acquired TimesTen in-memory DBMS product, and also a fair amount about Streambase. This is complementary to my own research, which has focused more on the other leading memory-centric data management vendors.

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