Hadoop | BigDataOnCloud + FreeDB2

Will IBM Lead in the Hadoop market?

There is an interesting discussion unfolding in the LinkedIn Hadoop Users group. Kevin Haynes from Greenplum started off with a question that generated a good spirited discussion. I tried to put a comment in but since I am never short for words I exceeded the maximum comment length. I decided to post my comment on this blog instead. Hope some of the discussion will spill over here or maybe a few will find this blog interesting enough to subscribe and follow.

What I wanted to do was to make the case for IBM acquiring leadership position in the Big Data [...]

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Sneak a peek at the DB2 future if you are at IDUG in Anaheim

There is a discussion thread on LinkedIN IDUG NA group with a number of people chiming in about how many IDUG (International DB2 User Group) events they’ve participated in. Phil Granger thinks he has done 42. I have had my share of IDUG events but I don’t think I am going to beat Phil’s record. I did present at many IDUG events (well over 20 I think) and each one was a rewarding experience for me as both presenter but even more so as an attendee. I am always fascinated by the depth of the technical content that is exchanged [...]

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Cloud database market is heating up with Amazon announcement

Amazon announced its second entry in to the world of cloud databases. Called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, this appears to be a hosted implementation of the Hadoop framework. Hadoop, in a nutshell provides a way to analyse very large amounts of data by employing large number of processing nodes working independently. [...]

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