Recent and Selected Articles
This page contains a selection of articles and presentations from the past five years. A list of archived articles can be found here.
You can see a full list of Database Trends and Applications columns here.
- Sealing MongoDB data on the blockchain - DZone Jan 2017
- Effective MongoDB Indexing (pt 2) - DZone Dec 2017
- The booming Javascript Ecosystem - DBTA Emerging technologies Dec 2017
- Effective MongoDB indexing - Dzone Nov 2017
- Bulk operations in MongoDB - Dzone Nov 2017
- Getting Started with MongoDB Explain - Dzone Nov 2017
- Top 10 hints for Oracle database performance - PPT from ODC meeting Sydney November 2017
- Next Generation Databases - PPT from ODC meeting Sydney November 2017
- MongoDB Stitches up Backend as a Service, DBTA "Mongo Matters" September 2017
- Battle for the future of bitcoin, DBTA Emerging technologies, August 2017
- Southbank Software Targets MongoDB Development and Administration with First Product Launch (dbKoda article in DBTA)
- Business Intelligence with MongoDB DBTA "Mongo Matters" July 2017
- Go and Rust Emerging as Successors to C DBTA June 2017
- No Need to Feel Insecure with MongoDB DBTA "Mongo Matters" May 2017
- Orchestration Is the next Battlefield for Containerization DBTA Apr 2017
- The Ethics of AI -DBTA Feb 2017
- Modern Heterogeneous Enterprise Data architecture takes shape - Big Data Quarterly, Dec 2016
- Apache Drill brings SQL to NoSQL - DBTA Dec 2016
- Open Source at the cross Roads - DBTA Nov 2016
- Interview with Tech Target Jack Vaughn at OOW 2016
- DataStax extentd Cassandra Capabilties DBTA Oct 2016
- Oracle Open World 2016 Presentations: Top 10 Database tuning tips, Third Database Revolution
- MongoDB continues to advance - DBTA August 2016
- NoCOUG review of Next Generation Databases - August 2016
- Mean stack gathers momentum - DBTA July 2016
- Dealing with the big data trough of disillusionment - DBTA June 2016
- Interviewed by Joyce Wells in the Big Data Quarterly
- Kafka is the new standard in big data messaging - DBTA April 2016
- Collaborate 2016 presentations: Next Generation Databases and Top 10 tips for Oracle performance.
- Databases of the future - DBTA March 2016
- SAFe Provides a Recipe for Agile at Enterprise Scale - Database Trends and Applications, March 2016
- Oracle's NoSQL features - - Database Trends and Applications, February 2016
- Quantum Computing is Not Science Fiction- Database Trends and Applications, January 2016
- Dispatches from the Big Data revolution - Big Data Sourcebook, December 2015
- Apache Kudu Bridges NoSQL Analytics and OLTP - Database Trends and Applications, December 2015
- Navigating the Software Paradox - Database Trends and Applications, November 2015
- Redis distinguishes as in-memory NoSQL - Database Trends and Applications, October 2015
- NoSQL means YesSQL with N1QL Database trends and applications, August 2015
- The Robots are coming, Database Trends and Applications, July 2015
- The Lessons of Database History, Database Trends and Applications, June 2015
- Blockchain promises more than just electronic cash. Database Trends and Applications, May 2015
- The increasing complexity of Enterprise Big Data, Database Trends and Applications, April 2015
- Top 10 tips for Oracle performance - slides from IOUG Collaborate 2015 (video here)
- Alan Turing's Enduring Legacy - Database Trends and Applications, March 2015 (with Michael Harrison)
- Five trends in Database technology - NoCOUG journal, Feb 2015
- Will transactions return to NoSQL? Database Trends and Applications, December 2014
- How Apache Sqoop 1.4.5 Improves Oracle Database/Apache Hadoop Integration, Cloudera blog, November 14
- Social Network Data is the new Oil of Marketing - Databse Trends and Applications November 2014
- From Oracle to Hadoop - Presentation given at Hadoop World Strata Conference, New York City, October 2014 (with @kate_ting and @DavidR021)
- Real-Time Big Data With the Lambda Architecture - Database Trends and Applications October 2014
- Docker Containers Offer an Attractive Virtualization Alternative - Database Trends and Applications September 2014
- Data Marketplaces Have Yet to Deliver on Early Promise - Databse Trends and Applications August 2014
- Fundamentals of Big Data Analytics DBTA, June 2014
- Best practicies for accessing Oracle from scala Blog post April
- Optimizing Oracle RAC, Toadworld, Jun 2014
- The Emerging Operating System for the Internet of Things, Database Trends and Applications, May 2014
- Is the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack the Future of Hadoop?, Database Trends and Applications, April 2014
- Prepare your Business for the Big Data Revolution CMSWire Mar 2014
- Aerospike Merges Flash and NoSQL Technologies Database Trends and Applications column, Feb 2014
- Brain-Computer Interfaces Could be Closer Than You Think - Database Trends and Application column, Jan 2014
- #dmradio show on Hadoop adoption with me, Eric Kavanagh, Philip Russom, Justin Makeig and Mike Fahey Dec 2013
- Video of performance tuning lecture at Sun Yat-sen university. Part 1 Part 2
- Intel's Hadoop distribution -Database Trends and Applications column, Dec 2013
- October 2013 DBTA column: Nosql security
- Oracle Hadoop and the Big Data revolution. Presentation at Oracle Open World September 2013. Slides Audio
- Why Hadoop projects fail — and how to make yours a success. VentureBeat June 2013
- Online games leading the way in Big Data Analytics. dbta.com May 2013 (with Michael Harrison)
- Hadoop's Next-generation YARN. dbta.com, Dec 2012
- Top 3 Trends in IT and Big Data: A Look Back, The Year Ahead. Enterprise Systems November 2012
- Hadoop and the Big Data Revolution - Database Trends and Applications feature Oct 2012
- Statistical Analysis and R in the world of Big Data - dbta.com Sep 2012
- MongoDB- the new M and the Lamp stack? - dbta.com July 2012
- RDBMS vendors embrace Hadoop - dbta.com Feb 2012
- Best Practicies for Optimizing Oracle RDBMS with Solid State Disk. Quest Software whitepaper 2011
- RDBMS-Hadoop integration with SQOOP and other tools. Hadoop World 2011
- Optimize Oracle on VMWare - Oracle Open World 2011
- Machine Learning drives competitive advantage - dbta Sep 2011
- Oracle Parallel SQL - Toadworld 2011
- Cassandra and Hadoop - dbta.com June 2011
- The Rise of the Data scientist - dbta.com May 2011
- Collective Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence dbta.com Mar 2011
- RealWorld NoSQL: MongoDB at Shutterfly. New York Times, Feb 2011 (syndicated from GigaOm)
- RealWorld NoSQL: Cassandra at OpenWave. New York Times, Feb 2011 (syndicated from GigaOm)
- RealWorld NoSQL: HBase and Trend Micro New York Times, Feb 2011 (syndicated from GigaOm)
- Introduction to Cassandra - dbta.com October 2010
- Why NoSQL - dbta.com August 2010
- In Search of the Elastic Database - Quest Whitepaper
- Amptibians, Cetaceans and Cloud Databases - Lightnight talk given at Cloud Camp SF on June 2010
- Hadoop sets it's sights on the enterprise - dbta.com 2010
- Interview with Iggy Fernandez in NoCOUG journal
- Map Reduce for BI and Analytics - dbta.com Sep 2009
- Crystal ball gazing with predictive analytics - dbta.com July 2009
- What's next for RDBMS - InfoManagement Direct, May 2009
- End of the one-size fits all RDBMS - dbta.com July 2008
- Tuning MySQL SQL Code - ToadWorld July 2008
- Is the next DBMS revolution looming - (part1, part2) Database Trends and Applications June 2008
- MySQL Stored Procedures: Relic or Revolution - Linux Journal December 2007