Data Management

10 of the most useful cloud databases

As businesses deal with more and more data, providers are making it easier to manage that data in the public cloud

Oracle focuses on prepping databases as a service

The latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager offers organizations the ability provide production-ready databases as a service

Apache Spark is Hadoop’s speedy Swiss Army knife

Fast-running data analysis system provides real-time data processing functions Hadoop has been pushed to incorporate

Enjoy machine learning with Mahout on Hadoop

Mahout brings the power of scalable processing to Hadoop's huge data sets

Amazon wants to run your high-performance databases

The company's new R3 instances have up to 262GB of RAM

Mary Meeker: Mobile devices equal big data devices

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers report sees mobile devices at the center of a slew of personalized data-harvesting trends

Google concedes in diversity data that employees mainly male and white

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has called on Google and other tech companies to diversify tech hiring

5 signs you’re outgrowing MySQL

MySQL has earned its huge installed base. But as Scott Sullivan of Clustrix argues, performance warning signs may indicate it's time to consider a NewSQL alternative

Connecting to Cassandra from Java

Oracle weaves Fabric for MySQL clustering

MySQL Fabric offers high availability and can scale out across multiple servers