The Coming Database Revolution

Thursday, August 25, 2011

08:30 AM - 09:30 AM

Level:

Technical - Intermediate

For more than a decade, the evolution of database was governed largely by the incremental improvement in the major RDBMS products, and then suddenly in the past few years, a whole series of innovations started to arrive. This presentation will touch on the most significant, including these "Top 12":

The impact of SSD
Vector registers
The ARM processor
Column store databases and analytic databases
In memory architecture and database
NoSQL and the failure of SQL
Big data/machine data
Hadoop and friends
Data virtualization
Cloud database - database-as-a-service
Streaming and time series databases
A mathematics of data

Robin Bloor is a prominent analyst in the database and information management sectors. He authored a column in DMBS Magazine (in the US) for 4 years and also provided regular content for Computer Weekly in the UK. He has also regularly written individual articles for many magazines in the UK and Europe over a decade. He was the prime author for the web site IT-Director.com which he designed and built and which subsequently became one of the primary UK IT related web sites . As one would expect of any analyst, he has authored numerous white papers, product reviews and IT research papers.