With IBM Power8 deal and Oracle backing for Cypher project, graph database Neo4j 2.3 is now outOn top of new features in the latest release of the graph database, Neo4j is being tuned for IBM hardware while Neo's query language Cypher gets its own open-source project.October 21, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data Analytics
How Couchbase 4.0 is cranking up its developer appealThe latest release of open-source document store Couchbase is aiming to make life easier for developers with, among other things, a new SQL-based query language.October 6, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Now Basho gives Riak a time-series data option for IoT appsBecause Internet-of-Things data is mushrooming, Riak firm Basho thinks it's time to add a specific time-series backend to the open-source database.October 5, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
MapR-DB adds native JSON support to cut Hadoop data shufflingWork on big-data app development should be faster and simpler thanks to a JSON API for MapR-DB, according to the Hadoop distro firm.September 29, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hadoop Open Data Platform moves under Linux Foundation's wingNew members, technical progress and a formal governance structure are the ODPi's way of saying that the project set up by Hadoop firm Hortonworks and EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal is moving forward.September 28, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
KVM creators open-source fast Cassandra drop-in replacement ScyllaThe self-styled KVM kings have turned their attention to creating a new database designed to improve on the Apache Cassandra wide column store.September 22, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
How Google encryption is helping tighten MariaDB securityThe release candidate of MariaDB 10.1 is out today, bringing built-in encryption donated by Google to the MySQL database fork.September 16, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hadoop veteran Ted Dunning: When open source is anything but openSome projects observe the letter of the open-source movement but neglect its spirit, according to MapR expert Ted Dunning.August 18, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Cut the marketing nonsense: Will the real data scientist please stand up?Marketing people are just muddying the waters by misappropriating the 'data scientist' job title, according to former CERN physicist Dr Paul Schaack.July 30, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Jut takes the wraps off its DevOps data analytics hubThe free open beta of Jut's operations data hub is designed to combine live-streaming and historical data, structured and unstructured, to create a comprehensive view.June 23, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data