A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?
A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for business intelligence. One of the big…
Rmetrics presentations online
Presentations from the Third R/Rmetrics User and Developer Workshop recently held in Switzerland are now available online. Check the Abstracts…
The End of Relational Databases?
Hasso Plattner, SAP’s co-founder, chairman, and “Chief Software Advisor” has been giving a series of talks including his keynote at…
Positioning your Database Start Up for Data Warehousing
Image via WikipediaBI/Data Warehousing is an easier market to enter for new database platform vendors. This is for a few…
How to Position your Database Start Up
I have been speaking with a lot or new database vendors over the last 12 months and this has prompted…
Positioning your Database Start Up for Enterprise OLTP
It is important to realize that there is less diversity in the enterprise OLTP market than at any point in…
#16: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:It’s all in the…
Death Of The Relational Database
A recent entry by Tony Bain in his excellent 'Innovations in Data Management' blog caught me a little by surprise.…
Relational Databases Get a Hard Time
Image via WikipediaThe NoSQL event has triggered a bit of a hard time for the RDBMS the last week. I…
The election in Iran and some real data analysis
Syndicated from BeyeNetworkIn 2005, Mr Ahmadinejad got 17 million votes and in 2009 he got 24 million.The question is, where…
