SQL or NoSQL: FoundationDB launches a ‘best of both worlds’ database

FoundationDB's team of ambitious founders are launching a new database that borrows from existing NoSQL and SQL databases, bringing developers "the best of both worlds."

Cloudera’s Impala tool binds Hadoop with business intelligence apps

Cloudera's new product, known as "Impala", addresses many of the concerns that potential customers still have about Hadoop, namely that it does not integrate well with traditional business intelligence applications.

Red Hat and 10Gen partner to power development of open source data platforms

Two of the biggest names in the open source world announced a partnership yesterday. Red Hat, the North Carolina based provider of open source software for the enterprise and 10Gen, the New York based company behind the increasingly popular NoSQL …

Accel Partners announces $100M Big Data Fund — to invest in Hadoop, NoSQL and other cool stuff

Venture firm Accel Partners has carved out a $100 million “big data” fund to invest in companies focused on building new IT infrastructure or on applications than run on that new infrastructure.

Accel, based in Palo Alto, Calif., at the …

DataStax lands $11 million to further the “NoSQL” data store revolution

DataStax, which sells products built on top of the open source “NoSQL” data store Apache Cassandra, just announced a $11 million investment from Crosslink Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.The company also announced a new enterprise product which will be available …

Neo Technology raises $10.6M to help enterprises manage increasingly complex data

Database solutions startup Neo Technology on Wednesday announced it has raised $10.6 million with a goal of helping enterprise companies manage and interpret increasingly complicated data sets using NOSQL.

“People have been using SQL databases for many years, but we’re …