From: gogala.mladen@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:44:21 -0700, Noons wrote:   
      
   > Like you, I wish Tanel all the best with his new company.  Not sure what   
   > it does but likely not very important to my circles.   
      
   Actually, it does look  interesting:   
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   Offload   
   Gluent Offload Engine automates offloading data from enterprise databases   
   to Hadoop. You can have an up-to-date copy of your data, in a familiar   
   data model, ready for analytics in the powerful ecosystem of Hadoop.   
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   Hadoop is just one of the "Big Data" technologies spawned by exorbitant   
   prices of Oracle RDBMS. The other ones are NoSQL databases like MongoDB,   
   Cassandra, Couch or Trump. Gluent is apparently a tool to offload data   
   from a RDBMS to Hadoop, keep both versions in sync, and produce nice   
   reports. I am not sure how does this translate into business opportunity   
   and to my experience, companies are mostly opting for much more   
   conservative approach of NoSQL databases.   
   I have recently participated in a rather interesting project of replacing   
   CLOB entries in Oracle by documents in MongoDB. The trick was to make the   
   stuff searchable and there is an excellent open source search engine   
   called Sphinx, that I've used. Basically, the CLOB in Oracle started   
   consuming a huge amount of database space and Oracle suggested advanced   
   compression and deduplication to deal with that. MongoDB was much cheaper   
   option and Sphinx can do text search with the best of them. Web interface   
   was written in PHP.   
   I don't have a company or a product, I do such things on per project/per   
   hour based basis. Hadoop is very fashionable and there are some really   
   large users using it. If Gluent manages to get few of those on board,   
   there is a bright future for the company. I will stick with MongoDB.   
   After all, MongoDB is web scale:   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs   
      
      
      
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