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• McObject eXtremeDB — a solidDB alternative
• 3 days ago
• McObject — vendor of memory-centric DBMS eXtremeDB — is a tiny, tiny company, without a development team of the size one would think needed to turn out one or more highly-reliable DBMS. So I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about whether it’s a serious alternative to solidDB for embedded DBMS, e.g. in [...] ...

• The week of trivial press releases
• 3 days ago
• TDWI has several conferences per year, including one this week. And so companies active in data warehousing feel they must put out several press releases a year timed for TDWI conferences, whether or not anything newsworthy has actually happened. So far, the only one I’ve gotten of any real substance was Vertica’s (and, [...] ...

• Vertica in the cloud
• 3 days ago
• I may have gotten confused again as to an embargo date, but if so, then this time I had it late rather than early. Anyhow, the TDWI-timed news is that Vertica is now available in the Amazon cloud. Of course, the new Vertica cloud offering is: Super-easy to set up Pay-as-you-go. Slightly less obviously: Vertica insists its [...] ...

• Vertica update
• 9 days ago
• Another TDWI conference approaches. Not coincidentally, I had another Vertica briefing. Primary subjects included some embargoed stuff, plus (at my instigation) outsourced data marts. But I also had the opportunity to follow up on a couple of points from February’s briefing, namely: Vertica has about 35 paying customers. That doesn’t sound like [...] ...

• Database blades are not what they used to be
• 9 days ago
• In which we bring you another instantiation of Monash’s First Law of Commercial Semantics: Bad jargon drives out good. When Enterprise DB announced a partnership with Truviso for a “blade,” I naturally assumed they were using the term in a more-or-less standard way, and hence believed that it was more than a “Barney” press release.* [...] ...