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It's a competitive world for database vendors — and major players like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and SAP are not adverse to taking jabs at each other in bids to win customers.
But in the digital era, the company is less important than the technology.
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Big Data is supposed to level the business playing field, but up until now it has not.
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The NoSQL market is red hot, and some say the time to capture it is right now.
While some vendors in the space think claiming superiority over the other NoSQL guy is crucial to winning markets and minds, others focus on displacing Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
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The NASDAQ Stock Market is an interesting place to throw a party — especially if you’re a red-hot tech startup that's valued at more than $1.5 billion and happened to hire a CEO with IPO experience nine months ago.
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Don’t tell Oracle's Larry Ellison, but NoSQL databases are the future of the enterprise. Yesterday’s databases weren’t built to handle today’s avalanches of data streaming from social, mobile, web transactions, the Internet of Things and God knows what’s next.
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This morning the software provider that sells commercial packages around Open Source Couchbase Server brings Couchbase Mobile to market. It includes mobile data synchronization and what the company’s Chief Mobile Architect, Wayne Carter, calls the world’s first and only native NoSQL mobile database.
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Sure the headline seems a little dramatic, but we’re not exaggerating at all. Consider this from the pitch for coverage we got from Couchbase last week: "Couchbase will announce Server 2.
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Big data never sleeps, or at least big data vendors don’t. We thought that after we reported and recapped all that went on at Strata+ Hadoop World, all would be calm for a while … That didn’t happen.
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Europe seems to be on holiday this week and in North America it’s the unofficial last week of summer. But in the world of Big Data there’s no time for reclining or relaxing. Though we can’t cover everything, here are a few bits of news we find worth mentioning.
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Today, Couchbase has released the Couchbase Server 2.0, an updated version of its NoSQL database product, designed to improve server functionality and database capabilities. Couchbase, a NoSQL database company, was launched almost two years ago when Membase and Couchone decided to come together to improve the NoSQL database platform.
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Enterprise acceptance of open source software has grown tremendously over the last few years. Few voices in the open source community complained about the newfound popularity, but maybe they didn’t know that hanging with the cool kids came with expectations. It’s Just Business Damien Katz, creator of NoSQL repository CouchDB
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NoSQL provider Couchbase (news, site ) has announced the release of two new products today -- Couchbase 2.0, which consolidates Membase’s key-value repository with CouchDB’s document repository and Unstructured Query Language (UnQL), a query language.
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Organizations think open source software (OSS) is bad. You know, bad meaning good. Do people still say bad? Never mind. A Gartner (news, site ) study has found that enterprises are increasingly including open source software in their technology portfolio.
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They ran in same technical circles -- NoSQL cool kids. Membase had an open CTO search; CouchOne (news, site ) had an open CEO search. It was a match made in data management heaven. Membase and CouchOne have announced their merger to form Couchbase.
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