One for the weekend: Big Data https://twitter.com/superpixels/status/479665690698592256
Tag: Big Data
Why Your Boring Data Will Outlast Your Sexy New Technology
So you're playing around with all those sexy new technologies, enjoying yourself, getting inspiration from state-of-the-art closure / lambda / monads and other concepts-du-jour... Now that I have your attention provoking a little anger / smirk / indifference, let's think about the following. I've recently revisited a great article by Ken Downs written in 2010. … Continue reading Why Your Boring Data Will Outlast Your Sexy New Technology
MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”
A very interesting talk about the future of DBMS was recently given at EPFL by MIT Professor and VoltDB Co-founder and CTO Michael Stonebraker, who also gave us Ingres and Postgres. In a bit less than one hour, he explains his views with respect to the three main pillars of database management systems: OLAP / Data warehouses … Continue reading MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”