Apps that need ACID
Apps that need ACID by John Hugg, VoltDB– Thursday, February 18, 2016, There’s a lot of discussion about the value of consistency and ACID transactions in data management. I thought it would be useful to describe...
Author: Roberto Zicari
Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2016
The SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general. Nominated dissertations will be evaluated in terms of scientific...
Business Big Data from a Scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) perspective.!
Business Big Data from a Scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) perspective.! BY Luigi Scorzato, PhD, Accenture AG. I have been using supercomputers and PC-clusters for scientific applications since I started my PhD in particle...
STAC Report: eXtremeDB & IBM at scale under STAC-M3
STAC Report: eXtremeDB & IBM at scale under STAC-M3 5.5x to 212x better than prior best results in the scale benchmarks 9 May 2016 – New York STAC recently used both the baseline and...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Expands Relationship with Duck Creek Technologies
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Expands Relationship with Duck Creek Technologies Three software integrations added to enhance underwriting and claims processes ATLANTA 5/9/2016– Today LexisNexis® Risk Solutions announced the availability of three new insurance software integrations with...
Kx: Benchmarks
Kx is a member of the STAC Benchmark™ Council (the Securities Technology Analysis Center), a respected independent association that runs comparative tests on hardware and software systems to validate their speed and robustness in time-sensitive work...
Democratizing fast access to Big Data
Democratizing fast access to Big Data April 26, 2016, BY Dave Thomas , chief scientist at Kx Labs For many years business users have had both limited and slow access to the massive data sets their...
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics
Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics Access the Full Gartner Report (Registration required) Disruption is accelerating in this market, with more demand for broad solutions that address multiple types...
Release: 3 Essentials of Neo4j 3.0, from Scale to Productivity & Deployment
Official Release: 3 Essentials of Neo4j 3.0, from Scale to Productivity & Deployment By Philip Rathle, VP of Products, NeoTechnology | April 26, 2016 Today, the Neo4j team is proud to announce the release of Neo4j...
Hands-On with NuoDB and Docker
Hands-On with NuoDB and Docker OCT 27 2015 BY MJ Michaels, NuoDB Docker is a perfect fit for demonstrating the strength of our product in a simple and foolproof manner because we can wrap...