Comments on: Boston Big Data Summit keynote outline

By: Notes and cautions about new analytic technology | DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:00:43 +0000

[...] for my Boston Big Data Summit (no relation to Aster Data’s Big Data Summit series) talk in October, 2009 Categories: [...]

By: 8 not very technical problems with analytic technology | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Sat, 08 May 2010 12:33:16 +0000

[...] expense of expertise. Highly skilled Oracle DBAs are expensive. The same can be said for many other categories of people, whether in IT or business units, needed [...]

By: The Naming of the Foo | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

The Naming of the Foo | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:19:28 +0000

[...] It’s particularly hard to describe NoSQL (Not Only SQL) accurately, given the basic confusion as to what NoSQL is all about. [...]

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:19:41 +0000

Interested in your comment, “Many people don’t really know how to write SQL”.

I think it’s even worse than that: many web developers are writing using frameworks that don’t allow them to easily see the SQL generated, so they don’t even think to tune it. Maybe we have become blase, thinking that the database problem is “solved”, because it’s invisible.

However, I agree that even if they could see the SQL, most developers wouldn’t know what to do with it. Database and query tuning remain black arts.

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:27:01 +0000

Jerome,

No promises of completeness are implied.

But last I looked, Aster and Vertica had a little more cloud track record — with “little” being the operative word — than most of the others.

By: Jerome Pineau

Jerome Pineau — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:02:21 +0000

Really cool list. Do you consider Aster (and Vertica, which I don’t believe you mentioned) the only viable/existing cloud players in the big data world or do you see others in there?

Thanks
J.