Tag Archives: NoSQL

March 28, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle’s FUD and Gangnam Style

By Ben Kepes

Recently Oracle released it’s first update to MySQL in two years. This release was, at least in part, a response to the huge uptake of NoSQL databases and the move away from traditional structured databases for many applications. I was approached by Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold who believes that the

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February 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Garantia Goes GA

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Garantia, the Israeli startup that is aiming to overcome some of the disadvantages that NoSQL databases come with – namely lack of persistence and scalability. Garantia’s solution is to offer Memcached with higher reliability and Redis with high scalability in an automated manner. Specific advantages include:

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June 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Garantia–Scaling and Protecting In-Memory NoSQL

By Ben Kepes

Note – this is (kind of) a repost – I was asked by Garantia’s PR company to pull an earlier post and publish this as the company gets ready to demo at Structure – that’s a highly unusual request but one I chose to follow out of respect to the

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February 8, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Survey Shows Increased Adoption of NoSQL

By Ben Kepes

One of the more striking developments in the application database space in recent years has been the rise of unstructured databases. Aggregated under the heading “NoSQL” (not an ideal name it must be said), these unstructured database management systems don’t use SQL as their query language and are unhindered by

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July 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NoSQL Search with Cloudant

By Ben Kepes

In the seemingly endless argument between the relational database proponents and those on the NoSQL side of the divide, the usual vectors of discussion occur around speed, availability, operational constrains and budget. One area that sometimes gets forgotten is the loss of a structured query language that followers of the

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February 11, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups

By Ben Kepes

Focus.com Cloud RoundtableLast week marked the merger between Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne, associated companies producing NoSQL products. It’s a logical combination as it creates an end-to-end NoSQL solution. But more than that it’s an indication of something I’ve been noticing at the lower end of the Cloud Computing stack.

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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