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 [...]

We normally discuss development tools in respect of production systems, where the developer is usually provided with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), for example like the various versions of Eclipse and the wealth of plug-ins available for it. Organizations that embark on software development in the BI space will already have equipped their various development [...]

Jim Falgout, Chief Technologist, DataRush, at Pervasive Software announces big advances in maximizing multi-core processing with a distributed scale-out of DataRush. “If you want to crunch big data, you have to use multicore processors, but you have to have the software to harness it, and that’s what DataRush does.” With data size, complexity and need for speed ever increasing [...]