Now that the dust has settled and regular games are starting back up again, it’s important to take note of one of NBA All-Star Weekend’s biggest winners. We’re not talking about Chris Paul. We’re definitely not talking about 2 Chainz. We’re talking, in fact, about Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. The NBA, more than any other sports league, has long been particularly simpatico with Twitter. Its players are among the most entertaining athletes online, many fans and media practically live on Twitter and the league is especially forward-thinking in coming up with new ways to use the platform. Last March, for example, the NBA became the first sports league to sell official Twitter-handle player t-shirts. In May, it became the world’s first sports league to break 5 million followers. In that context, Costolo’s epic All-Star Weekend isn’t as surprising as it may seem at first glance. But still, the guy balled out.Niklas Bjorkman wrote: Firstly I agree with your conclusion. NewSQL takes the best of the traditional databases and NoSQL databases to combine the benefits of both worlds. I do not agree that NewSQL vendors focus on giving scale-out features to transactional data. The NewSQL market is focusing on giving true ACID support combined with extreme performance, stepping away from the traditional relational structures in databases. A lot of developers appreciate the ease of accessing data using SQL and I think we will see more and more databases supporting standard SQL.
As you said - NewSQL databases often maintain the...
Apr. 12, 2013 02:56 AM EDT
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