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2013

Friday Night Bytes: Leadership Lessons From Coaching Football

Technology and football. These have been the twin faces of Billy Bosworth’s life, CEO of DataStax, a data platform that competes with the likes of Oracle and counts Netflix among its major clients. From childhood through school and to the present day, Bosworth has pursued both passions, with each informing…

Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud

Netflix is the big Kahuna of a Web media businesses, with 33 million subscribers in more than 40 countries. As Netflix’s “watch now” streaming service has grown, the company has had to rethink its data and storage strategies to cope with ballooning workloads managed in the cloud. Today, the company…

DataStax – Three Ways to access the same Big Data

We recently had a conversation with DataStax regarding their DataStax Enterprise product, which got us to thinking a little about the nature of Big Data and Cloud. DataStax is the company behind the Open Source Cassandra NoSQL database. It provides technical direction and the majority of committers to the Apache…

The biggest cloud app of all: Netflix

Netflix, the popular video-streaming service that takes up a third of all internet traffic during peak traffic hours isn’t just the single largest internet traffic service. Netflix, without doubt, is also the largest pure cloud service.

Netflix foretells ‘House of Cards’ success with Cassandra big data engine

House of Cards, staring Kevin Spacey, is the first major TV show to completely bypass the usual television ecosystem of networks and cable operators and premier on the streaming service Netflix. It may seem like Netflix took a big risk buying in unproven content rather than licensing content that was…

Big Data Comes To London – open source makes the market.

I met up with DataStax earlier this week, a company building a business around the Apache-licensed Cassandra key value store. the company is very bullish about the European market for non relational database technology generally, and Cassandra specifically. One swallow does not a summer make, but a couple of swallows…

DataStax Offers Enterprise-Ready NoSQL Big Data Platform: BizCloud Video

Many companies are currently in the midst of figuring out how to best manage the ever increasing influx of both semi-structured and unstructured data. This is why we’ve been hearing a lot lately about NoSQL databases and the increased adoption of these efficient data management tools among companies. Gartner has…

DataStax pushes NoSQL into Europe with new London-based subsidiary

Last year was a good year for NoSQL outfit DataStax. The big data company’s customer base increased roughly tenfold to 270, including 20 Fortune 100 firms and names such as eBay, Netflix and Thomson Reuters. It also picked up a $25 million C round in October, with one of the…

Big data player DataStax opens UK office

Big data platform provider DataStax, which helped Netflix determine the likely popularity of its first proprietary series House of Cards, has opened a London Office to help it keep up with demand for its services in EMEA.

NoSQL database firms step up attack on relational in UK and Europe

NoSQL suppliers DataStax, CouchBase and 10Gen all smell blood as they land and expand on European territory. All seem to sense a weakening of the relational model, with its neat rows and columns. DataStax, whose business is based on a distribution of open source NoSQL columnar database Cassandra, has opened…

Oracle is Bleeding At The Hands Of Database Rivals

Something is seriously wrong in Larry Land. Oracle does not command absolute control like it once did. You can see this clearly with the earnings the company posted last week and the growth that startups like Datastax are witnessing as more customers seek alternative databases for online applications.

Enterprise Sector Keeps Booming as Actifio Scores $500M Valuation

Like Mr. Bansal of AppDynamics, Billy Bosworth, CEO of database company DataStax, also opted against a “Sand Hill crawl”–taking a series of meetings up and down the Menlo Park, Calif., street that is home to many of the biggest venture firms–to maximize the valuation, he said. The company raised $25…

Hunt for Engineers Leads to Scattered Workforces

Facing a talent crunch at home, young Bay Area companies are establishing teams of engineers around the world—and adjusting to the complexities of a far-flung workforce.The hunt to hire workers abroad comes as startups are also rushing to lure foreign workers to their Bay Area headquarters, as demand for top…

Debt Collector Taps Analytics, Cloud to Reduce Debtor Phone Calls

To support Mr. Trepel’s work, Mr. Eberling said he is considering using cloud analytics from startup DataStax Inc., whose commercial version of the open-source Apache Cassandra database is designed to process large amounts of data in real-time. But this work is in early stages, and Mr. Eberling said he would…

DataStax Combines Security with NoSQL Big Data

Two major trends have emerged in the Big Data channel in recent months: First, NoSQL is becoming an increasingly popular database choice, and second, commitment to security is finally catching up with the drive to build Big Data infrastructures as quickly as possible. In a move that reflects both of…

DataStax 1.2 on Windows: A guided tour

Cassandra is a major wide column store NoSQL database. It’s popular in standalone form, and can be used with Hadoop to perform MapReduce analyses on Cassandra column families (tables). DataStax is the company that perhaps yields the most influence over Cassandra and its open source code. As such, its distribution…

DataStax cranks up Facebook NoSQL to 3.0 with enterprise features

DataStax, the company that was founded to take the Cassandra NoSQL data store created by Facebook commercial and therefore usable by mere enterprise data centers, is keeping to its cadence and is rolling up a new release of its DataStax Enterprise Edition.

Startup Success: Think Like a Quarterback

So I asked Mike: “What do you look for in a company before you make an investment?” His response was certainly interesting. That is, Mike seeks out founders that are like quarterbacks. These are the ones who have the leadership qualities to make it through tough times. OK, to get…

Startup Success: Think Like a Quarterback

So I asked Mike: “What do you look for in a company before you make an investment?” His response was certainly interesting. That is, Mike seeks out founders that are like quarterbacks. These are the ones who have the leadership qualities to make it through tough times. OK, to get…

2012

13 Big Data Vendors To Watch In 2013

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, column-group style NoSQL database that was developed by Facebook and inspired by Amazon’s Dynamo database. DataStax is a software and commercial support provider that can implement Cassandra as a stand-alone database, in conjunction with Hadoop (on the same infrastructure) or with Solr, which offers full-text-search…

Big Data Revolution Will Be Led By Revolutionaries

By Constant Contact’s estimates, the relational route would have required a $2.5 million investment and nine months of development. It deployed Cassandra, supported by DataStax, within three months at a cost of $250,000. In short, money won.

Top 3 Enterprise Ecommerce Player eBay Use That SMB Ecommerce Owners Shop Emulate

To accommodate eBay’s explosive data growth— its data centers perform hundreds of millions of reads and writes each day—and the increasing demand to process data at blistering speeds, eBay needed a solution that did not have the typical bottlenecks, scalability issues and transactional constraints associated with common relational database approaches.…

Forbes: Simple Ways E-commerce Sites Can Compete With eBay and Amazon

Gathering and analyzing shoppers’ behavioral data is one step towards providing customers with a superior online experience they’ll be crowing about. Billy Bosworth, the CEO of DataStax, helms the company that powers the software that turns the deluge of big data from mobile, social media, and Web traffic into manageable…

Forbes: More Data, More Dollars?

As seen with the IPO of Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK), the Big Data industry is certainly red hot. But what are early-stage operators doing — especially with monetizing things? Is Big Data real or just another techy fad?

DataStax Wants a Pound of Flesh From Oracle

Last week, I met up with DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth, and he talked about the new opportunity he sees in the database business. “I think the industry is at an inflection point,” he said. “It’s similar to the transition to relational databases during the 1980s.” Of course, the winner of…

DataStax CEO on Why Big Data Is a Big Deal

This week DataStax announced a $25 million C round, which was led by Meritech Venture Parnters. The company is a fast-growing player in the hot Big Data market, which is benefiting from megatrends like mobile, the cloud and social networking. I recently interviewed DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth, who has over…

Cassandra-based DataStax leads the NoSQL charge, pulls in $25m

DataStax, a startup that wants to bring down Oracle’s relational database, has pulled in $25 million in venture capital funding. The company’s pitch is that unlike the relational database, it is equipped to handle higher velocity and volumes of data. It sells products built on top of the open source…

DataStax Adds $25M in Series C Funding to Scale Big Data Platform

Today San Mateo, CA-based big data company DataStax announced it has raised $25 million in C round of funding led by Meritech Capital Partners, with participation from previous investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital. The company works with over 200 customers that include Netflix, GameFly, and ConstantContact in addition…

Forty Vendors We’re Watching: 2012

DataStax brings an array of open source products to Cassandra, a scalable NoSQL database for real-time big data workloads across multiple nodes. With a workhorse of a download platform, our source tells us DataStax will become a household name in BI.

Apache Cassandra database upgrade due this fall

The open source NoSQL database, which reached the 1.0 release stage last October, is now in use at companies including Disney, eBay, and Netflix, according to Jonathan Ellis, project chair for the Apache Cassandra project and CTO at DataStax, which offers commercial products and services based on Cassandra.

10 Coolest Big Data Startups Of 2012

Here are 10 examples of cool big data startups from the first half of 2012. Some have been incubating awhile and had their big debuts in 2012. Others have been around for some time (we didn’t go back further than 2010 to find startups) and made some big moves this…

Because Hadoop isn’t perfect: 8 ways to replace HDFS

DataStax, a startup commercializing the Cassandra database, has fused Hadoop atop Cassandra to provide web applications fast access to data processed by Hadoop, and Hadoop fast access to data streaming into Cassandra from web users.

Cassandra 1.1 Released: What’s New

There are a lot of interesting new features and improvements in the newly released Cassandra 1.1 version to cover them all here, but here’s the gist of them…

Cassandra 1.1 Brings Cache Tuning, Mixed Storage Support

Apache has dished out another serving of Cassandra, the open source NoSQL database popular for handling big data. The improvements speak to a maturing NoSQL database that’s well-suited for big data deployments. This time around, Cassandra has improvements to its query language, and tuning improvements that will help companies trying…

Cassandra Stays Ahead Of The NoSQL Pack

The NoSQL market continues to red hot with everyone throwing their hat into the ring. One of the stalwarts of the segment, Apache’s Cassandra project just released the 1.1 version of the NoSQL database and it has significant new features among which are improved caching, a revised query language and…

DataStax adds search to Cassandra NoSQL

At the Structure Data 2012 conference in New York this week, DataStax, which as commercialized the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database originally created by Facebook and open sourced as an Apache project, has bolted on search to the data store and a plug in that lets it also search and index…

How to Get a Twitter-esque Architecture Out of the Box

Today, a developer can work on a platform that integrates Hadoop, Cassandra, and Solr on a single cluster… Hey! Those technologies are used at another major company I’ve read about… what was their name again?

DataStax Enterprise 2.0 combines search and big data

DataStax just launched the second version of its DataStax Enterprise (DSE 2.0). This software combines DataStax’s edition of Apache Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr. The goal is making it easier to manage real-time, analytics and enterprise search data combined in the same database cluster. DataStax’s goal was to combine Apache Cassandra’s…

Datastax Integrates Solr and More in Latest Release

Datastax annuonced the new version of its commercial Apache Cassandra distribution today. The biggest new feature in DataStax Enterprise 2.0 is the integration of Solr on top of the Cassandra stack.

DataStax Enterprise 2.0

My client DataStax is announcing DataStax Enterprise 2.0. The big point of the release is that there’s a bunch of stuff integrated together…

The Big Promise of Big Data

For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

Pentaho Teams with DataStax for Visualized NoSQL Analytics

Today Pentaho, a BI software maker, announced that it’s working on a joint solution with DataStax, the first commercial distributor of the Cassandra Hadoop connector. The main concept is to fuse Pentaho’s visualization and overall emphasis on UI simplification with DataStax’s open-source, NoSQL goodness.

Creating a Big Data Platform: A Q&A with Billy Bosworth of DataStax

This BeyeNETWORK spotlight features Ron Powell’s interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax. Ron and Billy discuss why enterprises should consider using the NoSQL database Apache Cassandra for big data analytics and talk about the products and services DataStax provides for Apache Cassandra.

Roundup: Amazon’s DynamoDB

Amazon Web Services has launched DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides extremely fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Amazon has had a cloud database service with SimpleDB for some time, but DynamoDB focuses on fast, predictable performance and automatically manages the spreading of data and workload…

DataStax Reviews Company, Cassandra Through 2011

DataStax, a commercial distributor of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is reflecting on the past year. The company reached several milestones in the past year, as did Cassandra, and there are high hopes surrounding both as we enter 2012.

5 Big Data Startups That Matter

Cassandra in the NoSQL movement has not enjoyed the hype of let’s say…Mongo, but I view that as a good thing. It’s a great entrepreneurs’ story how co-founders Matt Pfeil and Jonathan Ellis, while at Rackspace, had a mind meld to create DataStax, and the vision to wrap support and…

2011

How to to provide a strongly consistent distributed database…

During the recent round of NoSQL Road Show events it has emerged that this description could be taken to suggest that NewSQL products are able to provide consistency, availability and partition tolerance and therefore contravene the common understanding of CAP Theorem that “a distributed system can satisfy any two of…

The 10 Most Important Open Source Projects of 2011

Well, here we are, another year almost done for. Time to look back and take stock of the year that was. You know what? It turns out that 2011 was a banner year for open source projects. So much so, that picking the 10 most important was pretty difficult.

Netflix opens “portal” for its open source projects

Netflix has announced that it has opened a “portal” for its open source projects… The “portal” is a github page for the Netflix projects. Other projects that the company plans to add to the “portal” include Astyanax (an Apache Cassandra client), Priam (Cassandra configuration and token management and backup/recovery co-process)…

Netflix Benchmarks on AWS Show Cassandra Still Has the Goods

Fastforward to last month and we see the stability issues fade away as Apache Cassandra reaches a major milestone in version 1.0. And just this week there’s been benchmarks done by Netflix which vindicate their 6-month migration to Cassandra.

Big Data: Hadoop, Business Analytics and Beyond

Providing effective business analytics tools and technologies to the enterprise is a top priority of CIOs and for good reason. Effective business analytics – from basic reporting to advanced data mining and predictive analytics — allows data analysts and business users alike to extract insights from corporate data that, when…

Calxeda Introduces EnergyCore ARM Processor for Servers

Calxeda, which has been talking about ARM servers for quite some time, made it official today. It announced a new ARM processor designed for servers, called EnergyCore, as well as Hewlett Packard’s plans to build a low-energy server around the chip. Other companies have also been discussing ARM-based servers, but…

DataStax to Hire 20; Serves Cisco, Netflix

Burlingame, Calif-based start-up DataStax will hire up to 20 new employees over the next year after raising $11 million in financing from Crosslink Capital and backer Lightspeed Venture Partners.

CIA: Cloud Solving Our Petascale Data Problem

Cloud computing will help him manage that data with technologies that include distributed database management system Apache Cassandra, which was initially developed for Facebook, and cloud data platform MapReduce. Hunt said that cloud computing will help analyze numbers and patterns to help uncover the next attack…

Oracle Releases NoSQL Database, Advances Big Data Plans

Another attractive attribute of Cassandra and other open source products is their low cost, as they’re designed to scale out on commodity hardware.”There’s an order-of-magnitude difference in the speed, performance, and cost of deploying conventional relational databases and Cassandra,” said Billy Bosworth, CEO at Cassandra enterprise support and system monitoring…

Cassandra 1.0.0. Is Ready for the Enterprise

Apache has announced the release of Cassandra 1.0.0, the first major milestone of the distributed column-based data store coming with data compression and several performance improvements and optimizations.

Cassandra database now ready for mere mortals

Jonathan Ellis, vice president of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Cassandra project, is reported to have announced that the NoSQL database is now ready for “mere mortals. You don’t have to know as much as you did about the nuts and bolts” to operate the database, Ellis said here.

StartUp Beat Q&A with DataStax VP of Marketing Michael Weir

DataStax , which just closed an $11 million Series B funding round, offers an enterprise database platform with big functionality enhancements. Q&A with DataStax VP of Marketing Michael Weir. The Burlingame, Calif.–based company was founded in 2010.

Cassandra Reaches 1.0: What’s Next?

One of the leading NoSQL databases has reached the coveted 1.0 release. Apache announced Cassandra 1.0 today, just two years after entering the Apache Incubator. Originally developed at Facebook, Cassandra has come a long way in a short time.

Apache Cassandra Ready for the Enterprise

“We’re consciously signalling that Cassandra is ready for mere mortals,” said Jonathan Ellis, who is the Apache vice president of Apache Cassandra project, jokingly referring to the amount administrative expertise needed to deploy previous versions of the software. “You don’t have to know as much as you did about the…

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra 1.0

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra™ v1.0. The highly-scalable, distributed “NoSQL” database plays a key role in Cloud computing by quickly handling massive workloads in real time with minimal disruption to services or…

Apache launches Cassandra 1.0 NoSQL DB

The Apache Software Foundation announced Tuesday the release of Cassandra 1.0, the NoSQL database originally developed at Facebook for handling distributed, massive workloads common in cloud computing.

Apache Cassandra reaches foretold version 1.0

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the release of version 1.0 of the open source, highly scalable, column-oriented, distributed “NoSQL” database, Cassandra. The release comes just under five months after the release of the previous version, 0.8.0, and since then the developers have added support for data compression to…

DataStax brings big data, Cassandra, to business

Cassandra is big data, no-SQL infrastructure for building new kinds of web services. Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax, explains what this is all about and tells me what the role of DataStax is in helping developers get into this new world.

Oracle Sails Out of OpenWorld, Into Uncharted Waters

At OpenWorld, the company rolled out not only a social network, but a “NoSQL” database along the lines of MongoDB and Cassandra and a “public cloud” that follows in the footsteps of Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

Oracle’s NoSQL

I have to agree with DataStax and other developers in the NoSQL movement: Oracle’s announcement is a validation, more than anything else. It’s certainly a validation of NoSQL, and it’s worth thinking about exactly what that means.

DataStax Launches Enterprise Platform

DataStax, a provider of solutions based on the open source Apache Cassandra database platform, announced it is shipping an enterprise database platform designed to enable the management of both real-time and analytic workloads from a single environment.

Oracle does about-face on NoSQL

Oracle’s introduction of its Big Data Appliance at the OpenWorld conference here this week is an indication of the attention it is being forced to pay to NoSQL database technology.

Oracle Digs in On NoSQL, Hadoop, End-to-End Big Data

This week at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle execs unveiled what the company called an “end-to-end solution” for big data, designed to make massive data volumes readily available to BI, analytics and data warehouses. The announcement also begins to spell out Oracle’s commitments to Hadoop and NoSQL.

Trends and Data – Notes from Strata NYC 2011

I’ve attended the Strata conference in NYC last week. Its been many years since I’ve last attended a conference without presenting in it. On one hand, attending only makes for a far more relaxed experience. On the other hand, I missed having random people come up to me and talk…

Are you really data-driven or just using data to prove a point?

I love data, I love the benefits that data analysis offers, and I love the concept of large amounts of data being massaged, queried, and providing insights through a whole new set of technical innovations – and there are many in data right now.

DataStax lands $11 million to further the “NoSQL” data store revolution

DataStax, which sells products built on top of the open source “NoSQL” data store Apache Cassandra, just announced a $11 million investment from Crosslink Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.The company also announced a new enterprise product which will be available in Q4, 2011.

DataStax, Neo Bank on NoSQL, Investors Bank on Them

Demand for NoSQL database technologies is growing as companies are adapting to open-source, seeking an alternative to SQL that can handle the massive amounts of data they need to analyze. DataStax and Neo Technology are two of the firms competing in this crowded space, and both of them reached a…

More Corporate Customers Are Saying Yes To NoSQL

NoSQL databases promise to solve some of the most pressing problems with traditional database management systems, but so far they’ve been used sparsely by companies willing to pay for the software. That’s starting to change, and several start-ups in the space have recently raised capital as they seek paying customers…

DataStax raises $11 million for expansion

DataStax has raised $11 million to expand its software and services that help companies deal with massive amounts of web data threatening to overwhelm their systems.

DataStax gets $11M, fuses NoSQL and Hadoop

DataStax, a Burlingame, Calif-based NoSQL startup, has created the first commercial distribution of the Apache Cassandra database and has just closed an $11 million Series B funding round.

DataStax 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 status of the DataStax product line, without going into any analysis beyond that.

Understanding Apache Cassandra

Many IT pros have heard of Apache Cassandra, but don’t know much about the project and haven’t had time to really find out more. Let’s take a look at Cassandra and find out if you should be considering it for projects in your data center.

Red Hat considering NoSQL/Hadoop acquisition

InternetNews.com yesterday published an article based on an interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst asking the question “Is Red Hat Interested in the Database Market?” In truth there was no real need to ask the question, as Whitehurst’s comments made it pretty clear that Red Hat is interested in…

How to Boost Your Hadoop Performance With Brisk

The discussion of big data technology can often be split into one side or another: the realtime capabilities of databases that often have to organize records at sub-second speeds, or the analytical capabilities of databases that have to comprehensively search those same records at the same level of speed. Sometimes…

CassandraSF2011: Progress and Futures

Jonathan Ellis, CTO of DataStax and project chair for Apache Cassandra, keynoted at Cassandra SF 2011. Major accomplishments for the project in the last year include better support for multi-data center deployments, optimized read performance, included integrated caching and improved client APIs including a SQL-like language CQL.

Database high priest mud wrestles Facebook

Last week, in a piece from our friends at GigaOM, Database Grandpoobah Mike Stonebraker announced that Facebook’s continued dependance on MySQL was “a fate worse than death,” insisting that the social network’s only route to salvation is to “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”

Big Data Drives Enterprise Solutions to the Next Level

One of the key, driving changes to IT infrastructure today is the exponential growth in the areas of data, storage, processing power and bandwidth utilization. New data creation is stirring across the industry, and big data leaders are coming out with new ideas and solutions to cater to the demands…

Choosing a cloud data store for Big Data

Established vendors and startups alike have spearheaded advanced technologies for managing petabytes of data that have sprung from social computing and data analysis applications, commonly called Big Data. One vexing problem for enterprise IT management is learning to filter a growing cloud data store taxonomy.

Cassandra with CQL

CQL will look very familiar to anyone who knows SQL, with most of the usual keywords – Select, Use, Update, Drop and Create are all there and work pretty much as you expect.

Cassandra and Hadoop-Strange Bedfellows or a Match Made in Heaven?

Both HBase and Cassandra can deal with large data sets, and provide high transaction rates and low latency lookups. Both allow map-reduce processing to be run against the database when aggregation or parallel processing is required. Why then, would a merge of Cassandra and Hadoop be a superior solution?

NoSQL database Cassandra version 0.8.0 arrives

Nearly five months after 0.7.0 arrived, the Apache Cassandra development team has released version 0.8.0 of its highly scalable, column-oriented, NoSQL database. Cassandra 0.8.0 now includes distributed counters and supports encryption of intranode traffic.

Integration’s Spring Collection? Cloud and Big Data

It’s spring, which means there’s a slew of new product releases, upgrades and announcements from integration vendors. Not surprisingly, what’s hot this year are Big Data offerings and cloud solutions that focus on supporting enterprise IT

EMC’s Hadoop Move Points To Analysis Arms Race

Planned Greenplum appliance will bridge structured and unstructured data, and it’s easy to see the industry’s top vendors will follow with their own all-purpose analytic platforms.

Top Signs You Need NoSQL For Your Data

Not everyone is sure whether they have big data or not, or whether they need a NoSQL system to handle it. One way to find out, said one adopter of a NoSQL approach, is to ask yourself whether it is taking you longer to process your data than it did…

What Will This Bubble’s Legacy Be?

First of all, let’s leave aside the issue of whether we’re in a bubble or not, and just assume that we are. Ashlee Vance has an excellent piece in Business Week looking at one tragic aspect of this bubble…

Hadoop Gets a Boost from Cassandra

While there is a lot of interest in the Apache Hadoop framework because of its promise to cost effectively work with massive amounts of data, there’s also a lot of frustration with the overall performance of Hadoop on industry standard servers.

Hadoop: From Boardrooms to Newsrooms

A handful of new releases and new partnerships this week — as well as a big award — illustrate just how versatile the open source data-processing tool Hadoop is and how widespread its use might become.

Outliers and coexistence are the new normal for big data

According to DataStax VP of Products Ben Werther in a March 29 email: “Cassandra is at the core of Brisk and eliminates the need for HBase because it natively provides low-latency access and everything you’d get in HBase without the complexity.”

DataStax Rewires Hadoop with Apache Cassandra

At GigaOm’s Structure Big Data conference, DataStax unveiled Brisk, a new distribution that enhances the Hadoop and Hive platform with scalable low-latency data capabilities…

Hadoop and Cassandra to merge in DataStax distro

Uniting the seemingly conflicting values of fast data access and deep analysis, open-source software company DataStax is developing a package that will combine its Cassandra non-relational database with Apache Hadoop data process framework…

Hadoop Futures at Structure Big Data: DataStax Brisk…

The Structure Big Data conference was filled with news and rumors of new Hadoop offerings. During a MapReduce panel DataStax announced Brisk, a distribution of Hadoop using Cassandra to store data instead of the Hadoop Distributed File System.

DataStax Soups Up Hadoop with Apache Cassandra

At the Structure Big Data conference, DataStax, the commercial sponsor of Apache Cassandra, unveiled Brisk, a new distribution that enhances the Hadoop and Hive platform with scalable low-latency data capabilities.

The Brangelina of Big Data: Cassandra mates with Hadoop

Open source celebrity supercouple. DataStax, an open-source startup based in Northern California, has combined Cassandra, the distributed database developed at Facebook, with Hadoop, the epic-number-crunching platform…

Hadoop and Cassandra to Merge in DataStax Distro

Uniting the seemingly conflicting values of fast data access and deep analysis, open-source software company DataStax is developing a package that will combine its Cassandra non-relational database with Apache Hadoop data process framework…

DataStax Shakes Up Hadoop with NoSQL-Based Distro

NoSQL startup DataStax officially entered the pantheon of Hadoop providers today, introducing its own distribution called Brisk. Brisk utilizes the open source NoSQL database Cassandra…

Doing Big Data with Hadoop Is Like Making a Sandwich

Ben Werther, VP of product management at DataStax, noted that most Hadoop users he has come across are using Hive, which is why the new Hadoop distribution he announced during the panel — Brisk — uses Hive natively.

NoSQL, Big Data a Big Deal at #SXSWI

South by Southwest Interactive attendees with an affinity for big data, or data geeks as they are affectionately referred to at SXSWI…

Cloud Connect: Netflix Finds Home In Amazon EC2

EC2′s Elastic Block Store storage system for running applications was “slow and too inconsistent” for Netflix’s purposes and it substitutes its own system built with the NoSQL system Cassandra.

The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing…

New Cassandra comes with big data support

Latest version of Apache’s open source distributed database can pack two billion columns into a row, which could be useful to big data cloud computing projects.

DataStax Preps Launch Of Cassandra Management Interface

DataStax, the first commercial company to offer technical support and consulting for Cassandra, has introduced a management interface for the NoSQL system. Cassandra manages big data at such sites as Netflix, Twitter, and Facebook.

DataStax debuts management console for Cassandra

While the rest of the NoSQL world continues to focus on specific use cases and faster transaction speeds, the Apache Cassandra project is now being backed by an enterprise service and support company.

RealWorld NoSQL: Cassandra at Openwave

There’s a lot of talk, but how much NoSQL action is there in the real world? In this series, we’ll take a look at some real-world NoSQL deployments.

NoSQL at Netflix

As Netflix moved into the cloud, we needed to find the appropriate mechanisms to persist and query data within our highly distributed infrastructure.

2010

Startup Predicts Success With Cassandra Database

The Austin, Tex., startup was formed to help turn the software into the next big thing for storing and analyzing vast amounts of data. Riptano this week is announcing an initial funding…

Quest Software Adds Cassandra Support

With the Cassandra open source database starting to gain traction in the enterprise, Quest Software today announced its intention to support Cassandrain conjunction with Riptano…

Bossie Awards 2010

Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, but already the distributed database is being used by a number of major websites including Digg, Reddit, and Twitter.