Introduction Oracle RAC Database gives the high availability as well as the scalability needed for an application. However when there is an instance failure...
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While reviewing the open source databases, MariaDB came to attention recently after MariaDB has formally announced the foundation of MariaDB. MariaDB is a “binary drop in replacement” of MySQL according to AskMonty Knowledgebase. MariaDB is compatible to MySQL and MySQL can even be replaced with MariaDB and it should work seemlessly. Even the MySQL...
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Introduction Oracle has leap forwarded the middleware technologies especially the database technology into the cloud. So far Oracle has been the traditional RDBMS database suitable for the private enterprise data centers within corporate walls. In Oracle Open World 2012 held in San Francisco, Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO announced that oracle database also...
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison announced four big announcements at Oracle Open World 2012 in San Francisco. The four big announcements were in cloud, cloud, cloud and in cloud. With Mascone Center fully packed with business and technical folks from various industries and countries, Larry Ellison announed list of items on the cloud. They are: Public Cloud specifically Infrastrucutre as a Service(IaaS) Private...
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During a key note address in Oracle Open World today, Oracle Executive Vice President on Product Development Mr. Thomas Kurian has unveiled Oracle version of NoSQL database according to wired report. In the last year or so, there is awful amount of research & development efforts going on in NoSQL databases area. There are...
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Couchbase has released a developer preview of Couchbase Server 2.0 which is described as high performance, highly scalable, document-oriented NoSQL database. Couchbase Server 2.0 combines the unmatched elastic data management capabilities of Membase Server with the distributed indexing, querying and mobile synchronization capabilities of Apache CouchDB, the most widely deployed open source document database,...
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Introduction DB Sharding is gaining much popularity in recent months as NoSQL databases gain popularity for massive scaling for the cloud. The relational database management systems so called RDBMS are the industry dominant databases with the specific focus on database consistency, also called as ACID compliance. These databases are accessed by industry standard SQL....
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Relational Database Management Systems We have seen relational database management systems so called RDBMS. These databases are the industry dominant databases with the specific focus on database consistency, also called as ACID compliance. These databases are accessed by industry standard SQL. Many of applications are written to access with type of databases. Oracle, IBM,...
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Did we forget to mention there is another set of databases on the rise? They are called as NewSQL databases. They are not NoSQL databases but they are NewSQL, a newly scalable databases with ACID characteristics. These are not “eventually consistent” database as you would see them in NoSQL databases. ScaleDB is one of...
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This article is blogged in Juho Makinen’s blog. The NoSQL versus RDBMS war started a few years ago and as the new technologies are starting to get more mature it seems that the two different camps will be moving towards each other. Latests example can be found at http://blog.tapoueh.org/blog.dim.html#%20Synchronous%20Replication where the author talks about...
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DataStax’ Brisk has come up with a single integrated solution that provides increased reliability, simpler deployment and lower TCO than traditional Hadoop solutions. The solution is basically based on the open source Hadoop and Hive that utilizes Cassandra for most of its core services. Brisk uses Hadoop’s MapReduce, Hive’s job tracking features and Cassandra‘s...
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