Heart of Sparkness #bigdatabooks

"Horizontal scaling is for losers / databases with < $100m in technical debt" -- MongoHQ

Inside source tell me Justin Sheehy resignation letter written as distributed map reduce function in Erlang

Vendor tell me they are ANSI SQL compliant: They comply with every part that was easy to implement.

WordCount Demos Considered Harmful

Inside source tell me that in response of competitors, MapR soon announce they raise $200. He clarify that in dollars not millions.

Is WebScaleSQL Web Scale? I ask for friend.

How much free software can you buy with $900m?

Oracle propose NoSQL standards committee, MongoDB gets board seat to ensure losing data at random become standard NoSQL behaviour

IBM announce support for Hadoop on mainframe. Product logo is elephant riding dinosaur.

Play "Is it Pokémon or is it #bigdata technology?" docs.google.com/forms/d/1kckcq…

I Love Lucene #bigdatasitcoms

Result of Pokémon or #bigdata survey in: Tokutek is database most likely confuse as Pokémon

Very interesting graphing showing rate of switch between R and Python for data analysis

Some woman hide pregnancy from father. This woman hide pregnancy from #bigdata mashable.com/2014/04/26/big…

Cloudera and MongoDB announce deep integration. New slogan to be "Lose Bigger Answers"

Program your microwave oven they said, use python they said

We put the Oops in Hadoop Operations

The day Hadoop stood still #nevarforget

Teradata places $50m valuation on Daniel Abadi