NoSQL became a buzz word in the last 12 months. Why? The short explanation is that there are a number of new databases which don’t depend entirely on SQL (which we can think of as Not Only SQL databases) and some which don’t depend on SQL at all (which we can think of as absolutely [...]

There is suddenly a keen interest in NoSQL databases, many of which are wholly new products. What is a NoSQL database, you may be asking. So here’s an answer but it is not a simple one because, there is no official agreement on what NoSQL means. Some commentators insist that the No in NoSQL stands [...]

Calxeda has gotten a lot of coverage over the last few days about their strategic partnerships, and being within a year of generally available ARM-based servers (Austin American Statesman, Channel Register, GigaOm, MSP News). One of the partners they announced is the company that I work for, Pervasive Software, which makes Pervasive DataRush™, a revolutionary [...]

Continuation of the conversation with David Inbar, Pervasive Dir of Strategic Marketing Dev and Robin Bloor on the implications of the new DataRush 5 parralel processing development platform. The energy consumption and greenIT conversation continues as well as DataRush support for more programming languages, and what that means in terms of cloud computing requirements.

The following is the transcript of a conversation between David Inbar, Dir. Strategic Market Dev. at Pervasive and Robin Bloor focusing on the new version 5 release of DataRush. David and I discussed what was truly special about this release, and what the implications of it are for the industry, cluster and grid computing, energy consumption headaches, the cloud, and big data processing.