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Webinar FAQs for Hadoop & Spark: Understanding Open Source Opportunities and Risks

by Nick Heudecker  |  April 16, 2017

Merv Adrian and I received numerous questions during our April Hadoop webinar with several hundred attendees, and we have summarized and answered them below. (If you missed the webinar, you...

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DBMS 2015 Numbers Paint a Picture of Slow but Steady Change

by Merv Adrian  |  April 12, 2016

Gartner recently published “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2015” (for clients) and the story the DBMS data tells continues themes we have been observing for some time in the...

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Research Retrospective for 2015

by Nick Heudecker  |  December 16, 2015

With another year coming to a close and the focus on 2016, it’s always interesting to look back at the research I was able to publish this year with my...

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Research Retrospective for 2014

by Nick Heudecker  |  December 26, 2014

2014 was my first full calendar year working for Gartner. Between events and travel, I kept busy collaborating on a variety of research. In Choosing Your SQL Access Strategy for...

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Is it Time For a DBMS Mass Extinction?

by Nick Heudecker  |  September 26, 2014

On Sept 19, 2014, InfiniDB (formerly Calpont) announced it was closing its doors after failing to secure financing to continue operations. Establishing differentiation in a crowded market and competing over...

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Research Round Up - on Data Lakes, NoSQL, and Information Governance

by Andrew White  |  July 25, 2014

It is not often I "toot my own horn" and for good reason.  I am a modest bloke, really.  Today I will toot away and also share some new research...

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Benefits and Risks in Curated Open Source

by Nick Heudecker  |  June 24, 2014

Today, Aerospike announced its in-memory NoSQL DBMS is available under the AGPL license, the same license used by a few of its competitors. According to Aerospike, there were a number...

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NoSQL for Competitive Hiring Advantage

by Nick Heudecker  |  March 24, 2014

Regardless of your location or industry, hiring technical talent is challenging. This is particularly true in areas like Silicon Valley, where 59% of employers plan to add workers. Companies typically...

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NoSQL Shouldn't Mean NoDBA

by Nick Heudecker  |  February 6, 2014

Last September I conducted an informal survey of NoSQL adopters to improve our understanding of who is using NoSQL and why. The results were largely what I expected, except for...

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Which Database are You Taking to Prom?

by Nick Heudecker  |  January 22, 2014

Project downloads, job postings, Github commits and mailing list activity are common methods to gauge traction for commercial and open source software projects. I frequently use those same metrics as...

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