“Isn’t it ironic that in 2016 a non-skilled user can find a web page from Google’s untold petabytes of data in millisecond time, but a highly trained SQL expert can’t do the same thing in a relational database one billionth the size?.–Jim Starkey.

I have interviewed Jim Starkey. A database legend, Jim’s career as an entrepreneur, architect, and innovator spans more than three decades of database history.

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Q1. In your opinion, what are the most significant advances in databases in the last few years?

Jim Starkey: I’d have to say the “atom programming model” where a database is layered on a substrate of peer-to-peer replicating distributed objects rather than disk files. The atom programming model enables scalability, redundancy, high availability, and distribution not available in traditional, disk-based database …

Warning: this is a mixture of historical content, biases, stupid marketing and unknown/proprietary/closed source technologies. Proceed with caution.

NuoDB marketing was sending out this message, encouraging me to blog (they were looking for bloggers too):

And while Facebook sharded MySQL 4000 times, even they call it a “fate worse than death.”

We’ve seen this phrase before and it did not come from us. For whatever reason NewSQL echo chamber is repeating this with less and less truth in it. In various whitepapers (all behind registration walls) they mention some analyst estimates and try to put a parallel between operating costs of large companies and something a new developer would do, as if everyone is living under same constraints.

I don’t know if NuoDB is a good technology for the customer they’re targeting, all their diagrams essentially …

In this webinar, recorded 7/31/13, Wiqar Chaudry (Tech Evangelist at NuoDB) demonstrates how to easily replicate from MySQL to NuoDB with Tungsten Replicator. 

In addition, see Philip Stoev's blog describing how to configure replication between MySQL and NuoDB using Tungsten Replicator.

“Application designers need to start by thinking about what level of data integrity they need, rather than what they want, and then design their technology stack around that reality. Everyone would like a database that guarantees perfect availability, perfect consistency, instantaneous response times, and infinite throughput, but it´s not possible to create a product with [...]

Funding for Ayasdi and Zettaset. NuoDB launches cloud database. And more

For 451 Research clients: NuoDB launches distributed ‘cloud data management system’ bit.ly/UO3ssM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 15, 2013

For 451 clients: Armed with $20m series C, Lattice Engines looks to bring sales intelligence inside bit.ly/11z4VdF By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 16, 2013

Ayasdi Launches with $10 Million from Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE. bit.ly/X7oemJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) …

SAP on HANA. Funding for Guavus and ScaleArc. And more

It’s alive! @451research‘s 2013 Database survey is available now at bit.ly/451db13 #mysql #nosql #newsql #postgresql etc etc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 9, 2013

#SAPonHANA is official. Read the press release for the SAP Business Suite powered by #SAP …

“While I believe that one size fits most, claims that RDBMS can no longer keep up with modern workloads come in from all directions. When people talk about performance of databases on large systems, the root cause of their concerns is often the performance of the underlying B-tree index”– Martín Farach-Colton. Scaling MySQL and MariaDB [...]