McObject, MemSQL Continue Focus on In-Memory
There’s nothing that new about in-memory databases, but with advances in hardware behind them, their use within low-latency applications is drawing increasing interest. Recent news from McObject and MemSQL underscores the trend. McObject has released the eXtremeDB Financial Edition, which adds some financial markets functionality to its existing small footprint in-memory database. The key additions...
MemSQL Launches In-Memory Database
Startup MemSQL has gone public with the launch of its in-memory database, and has named a number of investors who are backing it to the tune of $5 million. A key feature of the database is the translation of queries from SQL to C++ in order to boost performance. Other key features pitched by the...
Q&A: RainStor’s John Bantleman on Big Data Scale with Low Cost and Complexity
Big data storage and analytics is not just about MapReduce and Hadoop. A number of specialised database products have grown up that look to solve the problems of data scale, while keeping a focus on costs, and overall complexity and manageability. One such database is RainStor, from the company of the same name. We spoke...
India Wins Shine Light on McObject’s eXtremeDB
In-memory database vendor McObject is new to me, though recent Indian customer press releases – here and here – piqued my interest. It seems the company has been around for a good few years, has around 300 customers, including a few in the financial markets, and has built some interesting technology, called eXtremeDB. The secret...
Sunrise on Oracle
Oracle last week finally completed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, and the company wasted no time in setting out its road map for how its software and Sun’s hardware (and some software) are going to be packaged together so that the sum is greater than the two parts. A surprise – kinda –...