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Is object storage good for databases?

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade…

Oct 19, 2022 Yves Mulkers 24M views 3 min read

How Universal Databases Promise to Simplify Data Management

Can a “universal database” do the work of many special-purpose databases? That’s the promise of SingleStore’s distributed SQL database. They…

Oct 13, 2021 Yves Mulkers 75M views 3 min read

Why You Need To Shift From Being Data-led To Data-driven

Business intelligence is the lifeblood of modern organisations. Collecting, mining, reporting and extracting relevant internal and external information to draw…

Aug 22, 2020 Yves Mulkers 48M views 2 min read

The 6 biggest myths about relational databases

Historically, relational databases have been very good — necessary in fact — for transaction processing applications. If you bought or…

Feb 6, 2020 Yves Mulkers 101M views 3 min read

High Performance Storage Enables Digital Transformation

GridGain contributed to Apache Ignite and runs an In-Memory Computing Summit.  The company says that unified in-memory computing will power digital…

Sep 30, 2019 Yves Mulkers 88M views 3 min read

Driving The Intelligent Enterprise

A Formula 1 racing car is bristling with the latest technology, from sophisticated energy recapture and drag reduction systems to…

Oct 29, 2018 Yves Mulkers 85M views 3 min read

This startup thinks it knows how to speed up real-time analytics on tons of data

AI applications are sprouting everywhere as companies look to build complex and advanced systems quickly. But there’s one issue that…

Sep 4, 2018 Yves Mulkers 77M views 4 min read

SAP launches HANA Data Management Suite

SAP does not own its own hardware infrastructure. That has had large implications how it delivers the HANA database, where…

Jun 9, 2018 Yves Mulkers 130M views 3 min read

Ten “Design First” Principles from Strata/Hadoop World NYC

Several themes emerged from my conversations with more than 35 vendors at the Strata/Hadoop World show in New York City…

Nov 9, 2016 Yves Mulkers 81M views 6 min read

NoSQL vendors to lead the charge in fast-growing Big Data market, Forrester says

Forrester Research Inc. has made an attempt to categorize the key segments of the Big Data landscape in a new…

Oct 14, 2016 Yves Mulkers 84M views 2 min read