Today I ran across an article where Micheal Stonebraker of MIT calls Facebook's dependance on MySQL "a fate worse than death". Why can't all tech visionaries be as quotable as Stonebraker? I quote Micheal Stonebraker a lot. He is a smart guy and a quote producing machine. I loved it when he called Mapreduce/Hadoop a step backward. I am waiting to hear more about his SciDB project which he is planning to link to R. The enterprise version of SciDB is sold through his company Paradigm4.
Of course Micheal Stonebraker has a solution for Facebook's terrible problem, NewSQL or as he calls his product VoltDB. Is it the cure for all that ails the data overwhelmed world of a internet companies? I can not tell you. However, as long as Micheal Stonebraker is leading the charge and putting out the quotes I will be there to read it with a smile.
Article: Facebook trapped in MySQL "fate worse than death".
Article on VoltDB: PostgreSQL vs VoltDB
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Stonebreaker Comments on Caffiene and Linking SciDB to R
Dr. Micheal Stonebraker of MIT had a short presentation on SciDB on Friday. SciDB is an interesting project because of its stated goal of addressing the needs of the research community. Dr. Stonebraker is one of the thought leaders when its comes to databases whether you agree with him or not. In 2008 he wrote a paper saying that Hadoop and Map Reduce were a steps backwards in terms of technology development. In 2010 Google dropped Map Reduce in favor of Caffeine. I really hope Caffeine uses Java Beans!
The meeting on Friday was to announce the release of SciDB V1.0 which is supposed to be a much more feature rich than the current V0.75. It is also interesting to note that the only analytics environment they plan to integrate with is R because that is the only one SciDB users use. While I am not sure doing a open source project that is for research only is the best idea because it may cut down on some useful contributions from the non-academic world, I do think SciDB is an interesting project.
The meeting on Friday was to announce the release of SciDB V1.0 which is supposed to be a much more feature rich than the current V0.75. It is also interesting to note that the only analytics environment they plan to integrate with is R because that is the only one SciDB users use. While I am not sure doing a open source project that is for research only is the best idea because it may cut down on some useful contributions from the non-academic world, I do think SciDB is an interesting project.
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