Distributed database provider TransLattice is taking the fight to Oracle and IBM: it's breaking its TransLattice Elastic Database, or TED, free of its database appliances and selling it on bare metal or virtual machine instances. TransLattice was founded in November 2007 and came out of stealth mode in August 2010. The company …

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Tuesday 24th July 2012 14:21 GMT Matt Bryant

Interesting.

Not sure if it's going to make us unbundle all our RAC instances just yet but interesting none the less.

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Tuesday 24th July 2012 16:26 GMT proto-robbie

Wanted...

DBA, for EMEA transactions. Must speak PostgreSQL, Mandarin, Arabic and 16 European languages.

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Tuesday 24th July 2012 16:27 GMT KA

HP needs a database?

HP already has a Postgres-derived, clustered database: Vertica. But wide-area replication is not (yet) a Vertica feature.

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1. Tuesday 24th July 2012 18:09 GMT tpm
  
  Re: HP needs a database?
  
  That one is tuned for big data chewing, not transaction processing
  
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2. Wednesday 25th July 2012 00:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: HP needs a database?
  
  Vertica is columnar store, not OLTP.
  
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3. Wednesday 25th July 2012 09:36 GMT P. Lee
  
  Re: HP needs a database?
  
  Like any cloud / outsource provider HP (ex-EDS) needs a db which can guarantee data and transactions stay in particular jurisdictions. Banking, finance, security and government all have regulations in most countries and you don't want to have to even think about applying for exceptions if you don't need to, even if exceptions are possible.
  
  HP don't have a great acquisition history, but if I were them, I'd make sure none of the other big players can get in and mess this company up.
  
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Wednesday 25th July 2012 09:37 GMT UKHobo

$79,000 per node - wow

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1. Thursday 26th July 2012 10:24 GMT Matt Bryant
  
  Re: UKHobo
  
  "$79,000 per node - wow" Not unusual in enterprise software. It's not unusual for one of our solutions using several million of hardware to actually have software costs more than ten times the hardware costs. I think the worst example I can think of was a cluster of two x64 servers - about £8000 in hardware - that ran one app that cost £176K for the two nodes, a ratio of 22:1! It must be the cost of keeping developers stocked up with frothy capucinos and stress toys.
  
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Wednesday 25th July 2012 22:05 GMT Skoorb

EnterpriseDB?

As good as the EnterpriseDB version of Postgres is (and boy it's good) it doesn't do any sharding like this. I wonder when you would choose this version of Postgres over the clustered EnterpriseDB version, and what features you lose from the sharding - especially as the EDB version seems to have more flexible licensing and drop in Oracle compatibility. Anybody with more experience in this type of thing care to shed some light?

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