And DataStax, which has an enterprise version of the Cassandra distributed columnar database, just raised $106 million. Both the open-source Hazelcast project and Hazelcast the company began in 2008.

“We’re seeing a lot of interest in financial services and telecommunications sectors right now,” says Hodroj. Of course, GigaSpaces is not the only in-memory data grid platform available as an open ...

Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory database. Opening up the code could give enterprise ...

Pivotal, EMC’s big data development platform-as-a-service (PaaS) division, on April 13 released Geode, a distributed in-memory database, to the open-source community as a key part of the ...

Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory database. Opening up the code could give enterprise ...

Hazelcast open source in-memory data grid secures $21.5 million funding, expands platform to real-time streaming data The streaming data pie is growing, and Hazelcast wants a piece of it.

A case in point is GridGain, which this week announced that it has made its in-memory software platform available under an Apache 2.0 open source license. In-memory databases and database grid ...

Among those joining the rush to in-memory computing and “operational” storage is Software AG, which this week rolled out the next generation of its Terracotta database that supports “translytical” ...

Theemergence of non-volatile dual in-line memory modules, or NVDIMMs, addsa new tool for in-memory database durability. NVDIMMs take the form ofstandard memory sticks that plug into existing DIMM ...

Big Memory Machine Ellison made clear that the in-memory database will run just fine on commodity servers and even better on Exadata-class systems.