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Cloud Databases: On-Premise DBs Become the new Legacy

By Dick Weisinger

On-premise database market share is eroding quickly as businesses move their databases to the cloud. Databases remain a healthy business, growing at a rate of 18 percent between 2017 and 2018. But it has changed. But the landscape of the…

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September 3rd, 2019
Category: Cloud Computing, Structured Data
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MapD and GPUs: Fast Data: Speeding up Compute-Bound Database Queries

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data sets are only possible if there is some Big Processing available to handle the enormous volumes.  While the amount of data being captured is rising exponentially hardware and software engineers are rushing to develop software algorithms and processing…

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May 9th, 2016
Category: Structured Data, Technology
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Big Data: Apache Arrow for Faster and More Efficient Management of Columnar Data

By Dick Weisinger

The Apache Software Foundation recently released Arrow as a new top-level project.  Arrow is embeddable software that enables columnar in-memory processing.  Structured data is usually managed with SQL operating on rows of a database.  Column operations are often tricky to…

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March 18th, 2016
Category: Big Data, Structured Data
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Databases: Strong Movement from Commercial to Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

The future of databases is open source.  Gartner predicts that within the next three years more than 70 percent of all new applications will be based on open source databases and that half of existing applications that are using commercial RDBMS…

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August 7th, 2015
Category: Structured Data
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Structured Data: Traditional RDBMS Databases Still Rule Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

A recent report by Dell finds that structured and transactional data remains as some of the most highly valued data managed by businesses. The Dell report found that “although advancements in the ability to capture, store, retrieve and analyze new…

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July 29th, 2015
Category: Structured Data
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