Following my article on high performance at massive scale, I’ve started to get really interested in the type of distributed databases the big web players are using to handle current and future volume of data. Some of the products developed in my current organization have to cope with large amount of data (personal, financial, marketing, etc.) with an increasing need to aggregate and link this data to get the most complete picture about individuals and businesses. This is especially true in credit bureau, fraud detection, Marketing, customer management etc.
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The European Commission has started to listen to Oracle argument for its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems. All eyes will be on Sun’s MySQL business unit as the talk held last month ended up in an impasse as the EC is concerned that the acquisition will seriously reduce competition in the hot databases market. Oracle will be helped by customers such as Vodafone, The UK National Health Service, BBV etc. Against this merger, you can find Microsoft and SAP.