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Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...

Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Federated Stream Processing Support for Real-Time Business Intelligence Applications

This paper describes the MaxStream federated stream processing architecture to support real-time business intelligence applications. MaxStream builds on and extends the SAP MaxDB relational database system in order to provide a federator over multiple underlying stream processing engines and databases. The paper shows preliminary results on usefulness and performance of...

Tags: ETH Zurich, SAP AG, RDBMS, MaxStream, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-07-01

InfoReporter 2.65 (Windows)

InfoReporter a tool for building reports and analyzing data What you do with the Tool. You build up reports. Table reports, table & graph reports. The reports are based on local cubes, MSAS cubes or SQL relational databases or plain excel files. First of all you have to set up...

Tags: Data Source, ODBC, Report, OLAP, Microsoft Windows, RDBMS, Business Vision, Data Mining, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-05-06

Surround SCM 2009 (Windows)

Surround SCM, a highly scalable cross-platform software configuration management solution, controls access to source files and other development assets. All data is stored in industry-standard relational database management systems for greater security, scalability, data management, and reporting. Feature-rich Surround SCM includes changelists and atomic transactions, LDAP and Active Directory support,...

Tags: Software Configuration Management, Server, Microsoft Windows, RDBMS, SCM, Seapine Software, Feature-rich Surround SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-03-23

Advanced Database Query 1.5 (Windows)

Advanced Database Query is a relational database client utility that allows execution of SQL Structured Query Language statements on Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL databases. Resultsets returned by select statements are automatically persisted as CSV Comma Separated Values spreadsheets to a directory of your choice. The application automatically persists most...

Tags: MySQL, SQL, Microsoft Windows, RDBMS, Spreadsheet, Advanced Reliable Software, Advanced Database Query, Databases, Productivity, Storage, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-03-15

RDBMS license costs and Open Source

RDBMS license costs and Open SourceSoftware EngineeringOne of the basic tenants of SE is that 90% of the cost of software "projects" development is in the maintenance phase. IOW all the work of designing, developing and deploying only amount to 10% of the lifecycle cost. So if you doubled your...

Tags: Databases, Processors, Servers, RDBMS, maintenance phase, CPU, open source

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

RDBMS license costs and Open Source

A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model: ...

Tags: Processor, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Pricing Strategy, RDBMS, IBM Corp., Pricing, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Databases, Marketing, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-09

A Comparison of Oracle Berkeley DB and Relational Database Management Systems

Oracle is well known for its industry-leading database engine, Oracle Database. Oracle Database is an extremely reliable, highly scalable, client-server, Relational Database Management System RDBMS. It serves as the information repository for a wide range of applications in a large variety of industries around the world. In addition to Oracle...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Database Management System, RDBMS, Oracle Database, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-03-01

Using SAS OLAP Server for a ROLAP Scenario

SAS offers a flexible Online Analytical Processing OLAP solution, not only allowing users to choose a Multidimensional OLAP MOLAP approach, but also a Relational OLAP ROLAP solution. With the latter approach, the SAS OLAP Server accesses data stored within relational database management systems directly. A ROLAP approach reduces cube build...

Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, Server, RDBMS, OLAP Server, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-02-27

Avoiding Common Traps When Accessing RDBMS Data

Accessing data from databases such as Oracle and SQL Server has become an increasingly common requirement for SAS programmers. SAS offers powerful and flexible capabilities for accessing such data, and many aspects of this process are quite straightforward, especially when LIBNAME engines are used. However, there are a number of...

Tags: Trap, SAS Institute, RDBMS

White papers 2009-02-27

Google App Engine to start charging for usage

Google App Engine to start charging for usageDefinetely interested..I hope they get java support added soon! RE: Google App Engine to start charging for usageWhat Google has offered is the cheapest prices than others? Why not give a try?But there is a risk of monopoly too.Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.com

Tags: Google App Engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Reasoning About the Updatability of XML Views Over Relational Databases

XML has become an important medium for data exchange, and is also used as an interface to - i.e. a view of - a relational database. While previous work has considered XML views for the purpose of querying relational databases (e.g. Silkroute), in this paper the problem of updating a...

Tags: Reasoning Inc., RDBMS, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-10-22

Using XQuery to Build Updatable XML Views Over Relational Databases

XML has become an important medium for data exchange, and is frequently used as an interface to - i.e. a view of - a relational database. Although much attention has been paid to the problem of querying relational databases through XML views, the problem of updating relational databases through XML...

Tags: XQuery, RDBMS, View, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-10-18

Using PHP's MDB2_Schema, an XML-Based Database Schema Manager

The MDB2_Schema library from the PHP Extension and Application Repository PEAR is a powerful solution for preserving and using database schemas for different kinds of Relational Database Management Systems RDBMSs. Because MDB2_Schema stores database schemas in XML format, it's independent of any particular RDBMS. One can execute basic SQL statements...

Tags: PHP, XML, Jupitermedia Corp., RDBMS, Database Schema, MDB2_Schema, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-09-16

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

The strangest thing about the IBM System 38, now sold as the i5, is that IBM has consistently under-sold and under rated what has been, since the beginning, its best technical product. by Paul Murphy

Tags: IBM iSeries, Theory, RDBMS, Digital Equipment Corp., Unix, Machine, IBM Corp., VMS, Phone Book, Databases, Storage, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-12

RDBMS market reached $18.8 bln in 2007

2007 was a year that saw continued steady growth in the relational database management systems RDBMS market, with signal improvements on the part of several of the top five vendors in this space. The RDBMS market is estimated to have grown by 12.6% from $16.7 bln in 2006 to $18.8...

Tags: rdbms, databases, enterprise software, software, data management, nb

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Global RDBMS market: Oracle - 44.3%, IBM - 21%, Microsoft - 15.8%

The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6% growth spike in 2007 to $18.8 bln compared to $16.7 bln in 2006, according to IDC. Oracle took the top spot, capturing 44.3% of the market with revenue growth of 13.3%. IBM came in second with a 21% share, also...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, Revenue Growth, IBM Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, AM

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Old Databases Never Die and Some Won't Even Fade Away....

Those like author who are bit long in the tooth may remember Relational Technology RTI, the original developers of the Ingres Relational Database Management System RDBMS that ultimately lost out to Oracle in the RDBMS wars of the early 1990s. Ingres never actually died, it got bought by a company...

Tags: Quocirca, RDBMS, Ingres, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-06-26

Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists

Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese HacktivistsBut MSFT......has the best security in the universe.....Yeah, right!Wow... So the owners of the websites don't know how to validate input?They should implement code to sanitize user input and protect the SQL database...The term "hacktivist" should go awayPolitically motivated vandalism is still vandalism....

Tags: Programming languages, Databases, developer, SQL, Chinese Hacktivists

Discussion threads 2008-05-16