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In June, in the middle of the World Cup, Jai Rajaraman of Ocient and I presented a webinar with STL Partners. We built it around a fan who commutes to…
The gap nobody budgets for Financial services has never been better at detecting fraud. Models are accurate, scores arrive in milliseconds, and AI investment keeps climbing. Yet losses climb with…
In the first part of this series, I argued that Databricks and Snowflake are not walking away from Apache Kafka. They are targeting a narrower and more commercially interesting problem,…
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The State of Database Technology, Part 1: Scaleability
Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on December…
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Oracle vs. NoSQL vs. NewSQL — Comparing Database Technology
The world has changed massively in the past 20 years. Back in the year 2000, a few million users connected…
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NewSQL in Plain English
Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on January 10, 2018.…
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QuickStart Video: Using Volt Active Data With Docker
Docker is a powerful tool that many of our customers and community members use for the development and testing of…
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Database Resolutions for 2018
The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit…
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“Forrester Wave Translytical Data Platforms Q4 2017” Puts a Good Foot Forward But Doesn’t Take Users Far Enough on the Selection Criteria
Forrester recently published a new Wave™ report on Translytical Data Platforms. In it, they define a Translytical Data Platform as:…
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Meltdown and Spectre and Volt Active Data
The internet is ablaze with articles and talk about hardware security flaws found recently in most modern processors, including chips…
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Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017…
…and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone! In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 2
Previously in part one of this blog series, I explained the problems with two methods of database interactions. Traditional JDBC-style interactions…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 1
First off: I’m not here to bash NoSQL. NoSQL came into existence for a good reason — your generic legacy…
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8 Tips for Evaluating a Database in 2022
It’s that time of year — the “wrap up/planning” blogs are among us as we look to a new year.…
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Microservices – What CSPs can Learn From IT
CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are…
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