Cassandra company DataStax (formerly Riptano) is on track
Riptano, the Cassandra company, has changed its name to DataStax. DataStax has opened headquarters in Burlingame and hired some database-experienced folks – notably Ben Werther from Greenplum and...
View ArticleDataStax introduces a Cassandra-based Hadoop distribution called Brisk
Cassandra company DataStax is introducing a Hadoop distribution called Brisk, for use cases that combine short-request and analytic processing. Brisk in essence replaces HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File...
View ArticleAlternatives for Hadoop/MapReduce data storage and management
There’s been a flurry of announcements recently in the Hadoop world. Much of it has been concentrated on Hadoop data storage and management. This is understandable, since HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File...
View ArticleAster Data business trends
Last month, I reviewed with the Aster Data folks which markets they were targeting and selling into, subsequent to acquisition by their new orange overlords. The answers aren’t what they used to be....
View ArticleDataStax pivots back to its original strategy
The DataStax and Cassandra stories are somewhat confusing. Unfortunately, DataStax chose to clarify them in what has turned out to be a crazy news week. I’m going to use this post just to report on the...
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Highlights of a busy news week
I put up 14 posts over the past week, so perhaps you haven’t had a chance yet to read them all. Highlights included: My most important post of the week was a general guide to IT vendor strategy. That...
View ArticleCouchbase update
I checked in with James Phillips for a Couchbase update, and I understand better what’s going on. In particular: Give or take minor tweaks, what I wrote in my August, 2010 Couchbase updates still...
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DataStax Enterprise 2.0
Edit: Multiple errors in the post below have been corrected in a follow-on post about DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra. My client DataStax is announcing DataStax Enterprise 2.0. The big point of the...
View ArticleDataStax Enterprise and Cassandra revisited
My last post about DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra didn’t go so well. As follow-up, I chatted for two hours with Rick Branson and Billy Bosworth of DataStax. Hopefully I can do better this time...
View ArticleOur clients, and where they are located
From time to time, I disclose our vendor client lists. Another iteration is below, the first since a little over a year ago. To be clear: This is a list of Monash Advantage members. All our vendor...
View ArticleNewSQL thoughts
I plan to write about several NewSQL vendors soon, but first here’s an overview post. Like “NoSQL”, the term “NewSQL” has an identifiable, recent coiner — Matt Aslett in 2011 — yet a somewhat fluid...
View ArticleComments on the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database...
The 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems is out. “Operational” seems to be Gartner’s term for what I call short-request, in each case the point being that OLTP...
View ArticleDataStax/Cassandra update
Cassandra’s reputation in many quarters is: World-leading in the geo-distribution feature. Impressively scalable. Hard to use. This has led competitors to use, and get away with, sales claims along the...
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Notes and comments, March 17, 2014
I have ever more business-advice posts up on Strategic Messaging. Recent subjects include pricing and stealth-mode marketing. Other stuff I’ve been up to includes: The Spark buzz keeps increasing;...
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Notes and comments, May 6, 2014
After visiting California recently, I made a flurry of posts, several of which generated considerable discussion. My claim that Spark will replace Hadoop MapReduce got much Twitter attention —...
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Where the innovation is
I hoped to write a reasonable overview of current- to medium-term future IT innovation. Yeah, right. But if we abandon any hope that this post could be comprehensive, I can at least say: 1. Back in...
View ArticleNotes, links and comments, May 2, 2015
I’m going to be out-of-sorts this week, due to a colonoscopy. (Between the prep, the procedure, and the recovery, that’s a multi-day disablement.) In the interim, here’s a collection of links, quick...
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DataStax and Cassandra update
MongoDB isn’t the only company I reached out to recently for an update. Another is DataStax. I chatted mainly with Patrick McFadin, somebody with whom I’ve had strong consulting relationships at a user...
View ArticleNotes on privacy and surveillance, October 11, 2015
1. European Union data sovereignty laws have long had a “Safe Harbour” rule stating it was OK to ship data to the US. Per the case Maximilian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner, this rule is now...
View ArticleBasho and Riak
Basho was on my (very short) blacklist of companies with whom I refuse to speak, because they have lied about the contents of previous conversations. But Tony Falco et al. are long gone from the...
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