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The CouchOne and Membase Merger has produced the Membase Server for Mac OS X; providing a simple, fast, and elastic NoSQL Database that is now available for Mac OS developers. The newly announced Mambase Server is designed and optimized for data management needs of interactive web applications as well as providing a friendly interface for […]

Devart Releases First Version of dbexpress Driver for SQLite; implementing the common dbExpress interface for processing queries to SQLite databases and providing outstanding performance and stability in line with the Devart tradition.

A beta version is available and Oracle is looking for feedback for their recently released Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. This version, Oracle Database 11g XE is an entry-level, small-footpring RDBMS that is based on the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 code base and is free to develop on, deploy, and distribute.

Microsoft MVP and MCM Denny Cherry for SQL Server will highlight, through a marathon Technologies Expert Webinar, explore SQL Server sprawl and offer real-world advice to protect servers. Included within the webinar will be how SQL Server sprawl occurs, how to address SQL Server sprawl, how to rein in SQL Server sprawl through consolidation, the […]

IP2Location.com releases a new version of the IP Geolocation Plugin for Firefox 4 and is ready to download; allowing queries of data in order to identify locations of online customers or visitors through IP address translation to country, region, state, city, latitude, longitude, zip code, internet service provider, time zone, connection speed, domain name, country […]

Cloudera’s distribution that includes Apache hadoop and support for HBase has been integrated into digital Reasoning’s large-scale unstructured data analytics product Synthesys and will be available in the upcoming version 3.1 release. The integration will allow Digital Reasoning to achieve extreme scale capabilities as well as provide complex data analyticds to government and commercial markets.

Kendba.com is now offering Oracle 11g DBA training; providing the skills and knowledge required to administrator a medium to large and critical Oracle databases. A fifteen day hands-on course will teach attendees to use Oracle Database Administration to quickly manage and deploy secure, tune, backup recovery database with monitoring large Oracle databases. Students will learn […]

Infobright Partners with Zend for delivering high-performance database analytics for PHP-based web applications, together, improving performance for database analytics by 10x. With Infobright and Zend PHP developers are able to significantly improve query performance and data compression during the analysis of large volumes of data.

Support for MapReduce is announced by Platform Computing; bringing enterprise-class distributed computing for companies that use business analytics applications with Apache Hadoop MapReduce. The new capabilities allows customers to scale to thousands of commodity server cores for shared applications; resulting in high execution rates, IT manageability, and monitoring.

An Oracle Exadata 11g technical boot camp is now offered; providing in-depth information about Exadata features as well as best practices. As a 3-day course, the boot camp will deliver an introduction to the Exadata Database Machine, Exadata features, configurations, and Best practices. Also to note, the boot camp is being offered both in-class training […]

Citrusleaf has launched a new NoSQL database Citrusleaf 2.0; comgining the best practices of databases and distributed technologies. Test have shown Citrusleaf as a reliable, linearly scalable, and fast database for high-performance and mission-critical customer environments.

Simba Technologies will be providing free training, as a hands-on lab at COLLABORATE 11, for direct connectivity between Business Intelligence and Analytics and the Oracle Database OLAP option for high-performance ad hoc query, data analysis, and reporting.