WEB 2.0 - MySQL wants to build ‘database in the sky’
While search engines like the one from Google aim to give people access to unstructured data on the Web this “database in the sky” would make available structured data to application developers and Internet entrepreneurs said Marten Mickos at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The data repository would be to database access what eBay’s Skype is to Internet telephony and it would create the next-generation OLAP (online analytical processing) engine for data analysis …

November 10, 2006 @ 10:18 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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Defence keeps MySQL bunkered down
Sources familiar with Defence’s operations who requested anonymity told Computerworld the department is using the MySQL relational database system for a “large-scale application”. Exact details of the MySQL implementation at Defence remain scant but the source did say the amount of data managed could be as high as “many terabytes”.

November 10, 2006 @ 10:18 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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Web 2.0: MySQL to build ‘database in the sky’ (Macworld UK)
MySQL wants to launch a global project to build a massive, distributed repository containing all of the world’s data now stored in structured databases, the company’s CEO said on Thursday.

November 10, 2006 @ 10:17 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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