Database

dbForge Studio is a universal MySQL client for Windows that enables MySQL developers and administrators to create and execute queries, develop and debug MySQL routines, automate MySQL database object management in the convenient environment, and many others. This MySQL frontend GUI tool provides utilities to compare, synchronize, and backup MySQL…

Actian knows a thing or two about big data, and for over thirty years has provided database management systems that consistently outperform most of the competitors. And so when big data became fashionable Actian already had a head start, and has become the bedrock of big data analytics in many…

Big data gets big hype and generally makes life difficult – because it adds new levels of complexity in a domain that is already complex enough. Extraordinary efforts are often needed just to achieve the ordinary, and even then it is prone to error. Mike Hoskins, the Chief Technology Officer of…

Graph databases are primarily concerned with nodes and the connections between them (usually called edges). They tend to be used for their high performance and their natural ability to model rich data (rich in relationships). Here are several open source and/or free graph database management systems: ArangoDB is a distributed…

I’ve written elsewhere about the dangers of ‘big data’, but it is a rare event indeed for a technology vendor to talk some sense. Mike Hoskins, the Chief Technology Officer of Actian, didn’t pull his punches when he said ‘MapReduce is not just dragging us back to how things in…

This is a list of big data startups compiled by contributors at analyticbridge.com. Alpine Data Labs: data science solutions for Hadoop and Big Data. Cloudera: a Hadoop-based Big Data platform. Concurrent: Big Data application platforms. Continuum Analytics: Python-based data analytics tools. Continuuity: a Hadoop-based Big Data application hosting platform. Datameer:…

The database systems most of us are familiar with are row oriented. A row typically holds all the details associated with a particular entity (customer, employee, product etc) and so it is is natural to use this regime when dealing with transactional data. In terms of actual storage on the…

I’m not a great fan of SAP, or Oracle for that matter, but SAP’s HANA architecture is an unexpected innovation from a company that is rooted in serving the dull administrative needs of large organisations. In a nutshell HANA is an in-memory database capable of handling very large amounts of…