data architecture

Ehcache Java in-memory store gains advanced analytic traits

Caching specialist Terracotta Inc. recently released search features that allow the Ehcache Java in-memory data base to support analytical views of data that may have heretofore required a return visit to a relational database architecture. "Now you have native search capability added to...

Platform supports out-of-the-box environments for Hadoop, Jboss and others on cloud

Clustering house Platform Computing has forwarded its efforts in cloud computing with Platform ISF 2.1, a new release of its software for building and managing enterprise private clouds.  It is said to support the application lifecycle from development to operations.

JBoss World Reporter’s Notebook: What is going on with Hibernate?

The Hibernate object-relational mapper has gained wide acceptance for performing the still critical task of converting objects to relational entries and relational entries to objects. For a number of years it has been stewarded, in effect, by...

Deriving new insight from disparate data silos with an ‘enterprise data cloud’

Data infrastructure company Greenplum this month announced a major step toward its enterprise data cloud vision, the Chorus platform. The offering provides cloud-oriented features including self-service provisioning, data collaboration and data services. By plugging an existing datacenter into...

Say it ain’t NoSQL – say it is Not Only SQL (we speak with Nati Shalom)

A part of many discussions of massively-scaled cloud computing architecture these days is the notion of “NoSQL.” That is because the trustworthy and ubiquitous SQL data base seems to be playing a less-than-central role in big cloud apps built around Gooble’s Big Table, Facebook’s Cassandra...

Olofson on ODBs

There are a variety of caching techniques to be considered in grid, cloud and other types of distributed computing architecture for analytics.  Among these, the object data base can show some advantages said Carl W. Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC. In fact, some of the early object data base...

The persistent object store meets cloud analytics

Data Caches not a new concept, but finding a new place

Retrieving data demands both time and compute power of an application, and that demand can grow when data is housed in disparate data centers, as in a cloud or grid computing environment. Distributed data caches can make the data a little easier to find. A distributed data cache can act as an...