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Google’s growing cloud just got a NoSQL database
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Excerpt: It doesn’t have a cool name like Cassandra, Voldemort or MongoDB, but Google is offering up a non-relational database called Google Cloud Datastore. Like almost everything the company has done since announcing its Compute Engine service at last year’s IO conference — including the rest of the features it announced on Wednesday — Cloud Datastore looks like a direct shot at current cloud champion Amazon Web Services. AWS has a managed NoSQL database service called DynamoDB that’s replicated across three availability zones to ensure its stays up. Google’s Cloud Datastore sounds eerily similar, according to the product’s website (although Google calls its product “NoSQL-like).... read the full post.
Tags: Database, Google, NoSQL
Introducing Google Cloud Datastore
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Excerpt: Google Cloud Datastore is a fully managed and schemaless solution for storing non-relational data. Based on the popular App Engine High Replication Datastore, Cloud Datastore is a standalone service that features automatic scalability and high availability while still providing powerful capabilities such as ACID transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and more.... read the full post.
Tags: Database, Google
Simplest code to export a datatable into .csv format
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Excerpt: Hello friends we all go for a complex coding for exporting the data into excel sheet. Some times we face a problem that we are not having the interop dll for export to excel. So here is a solution for all of us which will help in exporting the data into. csv format. Here is a simple code. var lines = new List(); string[] columnNames = dataTable. Columns. Cast(). Select(column => column. ColumnName). ToArray(); var header = string. Join(" ,", columnNames); lines. Add(header); var valueLines = dt. AsEnumerable(). Select(row => string. Join(" ,", row. ItemArray)); lines. AddRange(valueLines ); File. WriteAllLines(" excel.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Code, CSV, Database
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Transparent Data Encryption and Native Network Encryption
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Excerpt: We have good news to share. Many of you have told us that data encryption, at rest and in transit, is very important to you as you move mission-critical database workloads to Amazon RDS. Today, Amazon RDS is announcing support for Oracle’s Transparent Data Encryption and Native Network Encryption in all regions. Both of these features are components of Oracle’s Advanced Security option for the Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition. Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition is available on Amazon RDS for Oracle under the Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) model. There is no additional charge to use these features.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Cloud Computing, Database, Encryption, Oracle, Security
SoftLayer API: Streamline. Simplify.
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Excerpt: Posted by Kevin Hazard in Development, SoftLayer Building an API is a bit of a balancing act. You want your API to be simple and easy to use, and you want it to be feature-rich and completely customizable. Because those two desires happen to live on opposite ends of the spectrum, every API finds a different stasis in terms of how complex and customizable they are. The SoftLayer API was designed to provide customers with granular control of every action associated with any product or service on our platform; anything you can do in our customer portal can be done via our API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Database, Softlayer
Will Data Monopolies Paralyze the Internet?
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Excerpt: Google has built an advanced database of street geometries by sending cars like these around the world. The data they collect would be a crucial component in driverless cars, and the database itself may be forbiddingly expensive to replicate from scratch. But the streets that Google has mapped remain available for some innovative entrepreneur to map in a different way. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Tim O’Reilly spoke with me last week about Internet companies acquiring massive proprietary data sets. “We’re kind of heading toward data as a source of monopoly power in some cases,” he told me, comparing data to “Intel Inside” as a barrier to market entry.... read the full post.

My Thoughts: Great question! As the big data movement continues to grow, firehoses of public data come from government, social networks and telco providers we are going to have to keep an eye on who these companies are and what kind of data access is provided.

Tags: Access, Big Data, Bigdata, Data, Data set, Database, Social
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