I have been playing with Apache Drill for quite some time now. In layman's
terms, Apache Drill is SQL query engine which can perform queries against any
type of data store - in particular any non-relational data store. Apache Drill's
ability to query against raw...
We are observing a new era in database technology space, drop-in replacements
with order of magnitude improvement in performance over their counterparts.
First Amazon Aurora and now Scylla DB. Although the concept of drop-in
replacements is not something new but most recently these substitutes started...
Aurora is a new offering from Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). It is
advertised as drop-in replacement for the MySQL - full compatibility with MySQL
5.6. Aurora is designed for fault-tolerance, availability and storage
elasticity. It is a relational database and a highly cost...
In a recent InfoWorld article, FoundationDB's Stephen Pimentel explained the
rise of the multimodel database. A multimodel database uses a single data store
to support multiple data models. For instance, FoundationDB tries to map
documents, graphs, and relational tables to a key-value data store. Applications...