September 2012 – At the Dataweek conference in San Francisco, a great deal of the discussion was on Hadoop and the appropriate use of this new storage and data retrieval technology. A key point is understanding what type of data is most appropriate for the Hadoop system. This structure is optimized for sequential data that [...]
May 15, 2012, VLAB, Stanford University—A panel comprised of James Phillips from Couchbase, Max Schireson from 10gen, Doug Cutting from the Apache Software Foundation, Andrew Mendelsohn from Oracle, and Ravi Mohan from Shasta Ventures looked at the issues of noSQL and big data. Robert Scoble from Rackspace moderated the panel. Scoble started out by noting [...]
March 15, 2012 – The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (http://www.vlab.org/) held their latest event on the topic of Big Data and NoSQL which is the growing trend for data storage in public and private clouds. The crowd of nearly 600 packed the campus auditorium to hear several different approaches to the data collection and query issue [...]
