Re: Is there anybody using this discussion group at all?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 03:14:14 -0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2016.05.12.03.17.39_at_gmail.com>
On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:44:21 -0700, Noons wrote:
> Like you, I wish Tanel all the best with his new company. Not sure what
> it does but likely not very important to my circles.
Actually, it does look interesting:
Offload
Gluent Offload Engine automates offloading data from enterprise databases to Hadoop. You can have an up-to-date copy of your data, in a familiar data model, ready for analytics in the powerful ecosystem of Hadoop.
Hadoop is just one of the "Big Data" technologies spawned by exorbitant
prices of Oracle RDBMS. The other ones are NoSQL databases like MongoDB,
Cassandra, Couch or Trump. Gluent is apparently a tool to offload data
from a RDBMS to Hadoop, keep both versions in sync, and produce nice
reports. I am not sure how does this translate into business opportunity
and to my experience, companies are mostly opting for much more
conservative approach of NoSQL databases.
I have recently participated in a rather interesting project of replacing
CLOB entries in Oracle by documents in MongoDB. The trick was to make the
stuff searchable and there is an excellent open source search engine
called Sphinx, that I've used. Basically, the CLOB in Oracle started
consuming a huge amount of database space and Oracle suggested advanced
compression and deduplication to deal with that. MongoDB was much cheaper
option and Sphinx can do text search with the best of them. Web interface
was written in PHP.
I don't have a company or a product, I do such things on per project/per
hour based basis. Hadoop is very fashionable and there are some really
large users using it. If Gluent manages to get few of those on board,
there is a bright future for the company. I will stick with MongoDB.
After all, MongoDB is web scale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
-- Mladen Gogala The Oracle Whisperer http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Thu May 12 2016 - 05:14:14 CEST