Welcome to "The Database Column"
The
database industry, like much of the enterprise software industry, has
gone through some radical changes over the past few years:- The growth of databases and the resulting storage and access demands.
- The maturation of open source database software.
- Core database technology innovation, such as column-based solutions.
- The ever-increasing need to quickly analyze and act on giga- and even terabytes of organizational data.
These and other changes will continue to impact the industry, altering how users evaluate, procure, and support database solutions. And with data storage, access, and analysis fueling every organization, understanding these changes is critical.
Posts by experts, feedback by interested readers
The Database Column is a forum for discussing all sort sorts of issues around databases. Its core content is created by seven contributing authors -- experts in the database field (see below for a list of the authors; a link will take you to a bio page). They came together during the launch of Vertica Systems, but this blog is not intended to be a corporate mouthpiece simply repackaging marketing material. It is intended to be a repository for information and discussions on database technology and innovation.
The value of the information at The Database Column is twofold -- the knowledge, opinion, and insight of the contributing authors and the feedback and discussion of visitors. The site is intended to complement -- not replace or upstage -- the various community sites, blogs, and other database-related information sources on the Internet.
Post, learn, and adjust to the audience needs
To start, we the contributing authors plan to share our thoughts and provide commentary on database technology, the industry, and solution benchmarks. Over time, we hope to add more types of original content, such as multimedia presentations, depending on what the readers find useful.
We look forward to having engaging discussions with you, and encourage you to subscribe to The Database Column RSS feed. Let us know how we are doing and be sure to send us topics you would like to see discussed.
The Database Columnists
Mike Stonebraker
Jerry Held
Mitch Cherniack
David Dewitt
Samuel Madden
Stan Zdonik
Don Haderle
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Hoy he descubierto un nuevo blog sobre bases de datos e innovación que han creado un grupo de expertos: The Database Column. Entre los expertos encontramos a Don Haderle, padre de DB2, Michael Stonebraker, uno de los arquitectos de INGRES, Jerry Held,... Read More
Topic I would like to see discussed.
"will structured and unstructured information management converge?".
I recently was involved in a project where structured data about cultural events (concerts, exhibitions, locations) needed to be captured in a decentralized way, cleansed, validated and then published according to several criteria via several channels (websites, newspapers, ...).
A solution proposed was Alfresco, the well-known open source document and content management system, using Hibernate and mySQL.
This puzzles me, since Alfresco has a very generic data model, aimed at documents (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide#The_Data_Dictionary)
also allowing to model external entities, but with no facilities to do joins in the search.
What am I missing?