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MapR-DB NoSQL Database Integrated into MapR Community Edition for Unlimited Production Use
MapR Technologies, provider of the Apache Hadoop distribution, has open sourced their MapR-DB NoSQL database for unlimited production use. MapR-DB is a Wide Column NoSQL database with native integration to Hadoop and support for strong consistency and ACID transactions.
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GridGain Becomes Apache Ignite
GridGain's In-Memory Data Fabric entered Apache Incubator last October under the name of Apache Ignite. The company donated its flagship in-memory computing platform to the Apache Software Foundation with the intention of attracting external developers and growing a viable community around its core technology.
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Google Uses Machine Learning to Simplify CAPTCHA
Google has announced a new CAPTCHA API which provides a No CAPTHA experience for most users.
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IBM, Databricks, GraphLab Present Notebooks as Unified Interfaces for Building Prediction Apps
At the StrataHadoop conference in Barcelona last week, Rod Smith, Vice President of the IBM Emerging Internet Technologies organization, presented work on an internal product they have been developing in their consulting work with clients that integrates data sources, and data analysis.
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Spark Sets New Record in Sort Performance
Databricks has recently announced a new record in the Daytona GraySort contest using the Spark processing engine. The Daytona GraySort contest is a 3rd party benchmark measuring how fast a system can sort 100 Terabytes of data. Databricks posted a throughput of 4.27 TB/min over a cluster of 206 machines for their official run.
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Mahout to Get Self-Optimizing Matrix Algebra Interface with Pluggable Backends for Spark and Flink
At the recent GOTO conference in Berlin, Mahout committer Sebastian Schelter outlined recent advances in Mahout's ongoing effort to create a scalable foundation for data analysis that is as easy to use as R or Python.
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Lovefield: An SQL-like Query Engine by Google
Lovefield is a JavaScript library providing an SQL-like query engine to web developers who want the benefits of a relational database.
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Web Summit 2014 Day Two Review
Yesterday concluded the second day of the Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland. We see what happened and what is new from last day at the event.
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Web Summit 2014 Day One Review
Web Summit, one of the largest technology conferences in Europe opened up today. Famous people from the technology and business world are expected to talk, like Peter Thiel, Drew Houston and Anna Patterson.
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Basho Announcements at RICON Conference
The RICON conference in Las Vegas last week brought together scholarship from industry and academia in a venue targeted at sharing the latest innovations in tools, technologies and concepts in the field of Distributed Systems. In hosting the conference Basho Technologies positions themselves as thought leaders in a challenging field.
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Microsoft Expands Azure Machine Learning and Real Time Analytics Offering
Microsoft recently announced new machine learning capabilities for Microsoft Azure platform. Developers can also create their own web services and publish them to Azure Marketplace. Microsoft also announced availability of Apache Storm for Azure. Azure Stream Analytics, Data Factory and Event Hubs for Azure were all announced in the past few weeks by Microsoft. In this article we explore moreabout
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Building Distributed Systems - Technology Considerations
The success of the RICON conference is a testimony to the importance of big applications in industry today. InfoQ speaks to RICON host Basho Technologies about considerations in building distributed systems and technical lessons learned at the conference.
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Tokutek Releases New Versions of TokuDB and TokuMX
Tokutek has announced new versions of its storage engines products. TokuDB for MySQL has reached version 7.5 and includes two significant performance features. TokuMX for MongoDB has reached version 2.0 and includes a mix of new features including performance improvements of its own.
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Basho Riak - NoSQL Key Value Store Designed for Scale
Basho Riak is one of the few NoSQL key value stores that is tackling the big problems relating to performance and scalability. InfoQ spoke to Basho CTO Dave McCrory to get some insight about the underlying technologies and strategies.
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Basho Technologies Hosts RICON Distributed Systems Conference
Basho Riak is emerging as -the- highly scalable NoSQL database. InfoQ talks with Basho CEO and President Adam Wray, and Peter Coppola - VP of Product, about the RICON conference, and about Basho, Riak, and distributed systems.