Notes on HBase
I talked with a couple of Cloudera folks about HBase last week. Let me frame things by saying: The closest thing to an HBase company, ala MongoDB/MongoDB or DataStax/Cassandra, is Cloudera. Cloudera...
View ArticleMulti-model database managers
I’d say: Multi-model database management has been around for decades. Marketers who say otherwise are being ridiculous. Thus, “multi-model”-centric marketing is the last refuge of the incompetent....
View ArticleNotes on packaged applications (including SaaS)
1. The rise of SAP (and later Siebel Systems) was greatly helped by Anderson Consulting, even before it was split off from the accounting firm and renamed as Accenture. My main contact in that group...
View ArticleDifferentiation in data management
In the previous post I broke product differentiation into 6-8 overlapping categories, which may be abbreviated as: Scope Accuracy (Other) trustworthiness Speed User experience Cost and sometimes also...
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Readings in Database Systems
Mike Stonebraker and Larry Ellison have numerous things in common. If nothing else: They’re both titanic figures in the database industry. They both gave me testimonials on the home page of my business...
View ArticleOracle as the new IBM — has a long decline started?
When I find myself making the same observation fairly frequently, that’s a good impetus to write a post based on it. And so this post is based on the thought that there are many analogies between:...
View ArticleNotes on the transition to the cloud
1. The cloud is super-hot. Duh. And so, like any hot buzzword, “cloud” means different things to different marketers. Four of the biggest things that have been called “cloud” are: The Amazon cloud,...
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MongoDB 3.4 and “multimodel” query
“Multimodel” database management is a hot new concept these days, notwithstanding that it’s been around since at least the 1990s. My clients at MongoDB of course had to join the train as well, but...
View ArticleAnalytics on the edge?
There’s a theory going around to the effect that: Compute power is and will be everywhere, for example in cars, robots, medical devices or microwave ovens. Let’s refer to these platforms collectively...
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Some stuff that’s always on my mind
I have a LOT of partially-written blog posts, but am struggling to get any of them finished (obviously). Much of the problem is that they have so many dependencies on each other. Clearly, then, I...
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