At the beginning of the year, I posted that we are in the midst of a data renaissance — where a rapid proliferation of new uses of data is driving new technologies to manage data. The traditional relational database had once been the main vehicle for serving the needs of online applications with optimized variants used to store longer-term data for business intelligence and analytics. No longer however, does one size fit all when it comes to data and database technologies. The unprecedented volume of information being collected and analyzed is driving new Big Data technologies. Extreme performance requirements and changing hardware architectures necessitate new Fast Data solutions, like in-memory databases. Applications that interact with data in a variety...
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