
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...