CEO of DataStax Company on Big data and cloud computing

DataStax is the start-up company in the big Data age, in nearly one months, DataStax completed the B round 11 million and the C round 25 million dollar financing, has become the recent big data market performance most powerful company. DataStax CEO Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16396.html ">billy Bosworth is also a legend in the field of database technology, He has over 20 years of experience in the database market, and has also held managerial positions in the prestigious software company Quest (Dell acquired) and Embarcadero.

Recently, Bosworth was interviewed by the media, and he talked with reporters about big data and cloud computing:

Q: How do you define large data? What is the importance of it?

Bosworth: Big Data has now become a topic that all manufacturers have to talk about, although the industry has a lot of definitions of big data, but I think the most appropriate expression is the 3 V concept, namely mass (volume), complex (produced) and flow (velocity), This data is not handled by traditional relational databases. The world we live in now requires that we understand everything that happens to us all the time. Big data has become an important tool for enterprises to gain competitiveness.

Q: What is the difference between DataStax products?

Bosworth:datastax Enterprise is currently the industry's only one by one based on the Cassandra database of large data platform, it is also an open source software platform. With DataStax Enterprise, customers can put the most critical applications into the consistently available architectures we provide, and can run across multiple data centers in the cloud.

DataStax development is very fast, we now have more than 200 customers, small start-up companies, large to Fortune 100 enterprises. DataStax Enterprise not only provides Cassandra databases for generating environments, but also integrates the industry's best large data technologies, such as Apache Hadoop, Apache, and so on.

Q: On Oracle OpenWorld earlier this month, Larry Ellison released a complete cloud computing strategy. Is the cloud's core database business for Oracle affected?

Bosworth: The current database market is no longer a single big situation, our customers tell us that relational database technology in response to Web applications and large data systems have been powerless. From an architectural standpoint, DataStax can provide customers with the flexibility to deploy their applications in multiple data centers, as well as the options for cloud computing. This is not the first choice of the two propositions, relational database for the cloud computing model is not the best option, in the extension can not provide continuous availability.

Q: Splunk is also the most recent big data company, they also completed the Ipo,datastax future plans?

Bosworth:splunk can solve a big problem for it users, which is very good. But fundamentally, Splunk and datastax are not competitors, we are more focused on large data infrastructure business, and Splunk is more inclined to apply. Large data is a broad market, which has different scenarios and cases, can not be generalized. We see a growing number of big data companies starting an IPO trip, which also proves that big data does provide a bigger opportunity for startups, and DataStax will seize that opportunity.

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