Pivotal juices Hadoop with in-memory database and SQL querying
Pivotal, an EMC/VMware spin-off that has big plans to deliver big data analytics through platform as a service, has whisked the drapes off Pivotal HD 2.0, its commercially supported enterprise-grade distribution of Hadoop.
But Pivotal's ambitions for HD don't simply involve ...
MongoDB Raises $150M For NoSQL Database Technology With Salesforce
MongoDB has raised $150 million from T. Rowe Price Associates with new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com. Existing investors Intel Capital, NEA, Red Hat and Sequoia Capital also participated in the round. MongoDB has raised $231 million since the founders ...
Fedora Linux 20 Gears Up to Be a Big Data Server
The open source Fedora Linux distribution is out this week with the first alpha development build of its Fedora 20 release, along with a long list of proposed changes.
One of the key additions set to land in Fedora 20 is ...
Improving the Big Data Toolkit
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software world. And Hadoop, the bedrock software of the fast-growing Big Data business, is ...