Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Jun 16 03:29:12 CDT 2011
Thanks Jim The most interesting part here is that is features "Roxie" which is ".. more like a traditional relational database or database warehouse that even can serve transactions to a web front end." Note that a VMware VM to play with is ready for download including a "getting started" type pdf-file: http://hpccsystems.com/download/hpcc-vm-image http://wpc.423a.edgecastcdn.net/00423A/pdf/runninghpccinavirtualmachine.pdf /gustav >>> accessd at shaw.ca 16-06-2011 00:54 >>> A new super Open Source data storage solution has been announced. " ...LexisNexis is releasing a set of open-source, data-processing tools that it says outperforms Hadoop and even handles workloads Hadoop presently can't. The technology (and new business line) is called HPCC Systems... " http://gigaom.com/cloud/lexisnexis-open-sources-its-hadoop-killer/ Read about what makes this release so important to the new super database systems markets. Jim