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Thoughts on MongoDB’s Humongous $150M Round

Thoughts on MongoDB’s Humongous $150M Round

By Dave Kellogg on October 21, 2013

Two weeks ago MongoDB, formerly known as 10gen, announced a massive $150M funding round said to be the largest in the history of databases lead by Fidelity, Altimeter, and Salesforce.com with participation from existing investors Intel, NEA, Red Hat, and Sequoia.  This brings the total capital raised by MongoDB to $231M, making it the best-funded database / big […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Database, ibm, Ingres, MongoDB, NoSQL, Open source, sequoia, Venture Capital | 4 Responses

At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

By Merv Adrian on November 10, 2010

I hope I can be forgiven the cute headline. It speaks to a series of events that were heard in Oracle Open World messaging, where the word “open” appeared much less frequently than in years past. Oracle is fortifying its borders, opening new fronts in its market battles, and slowly closing itself off from some […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Cloudera, CouchDB, Goldengate, hadoop, Hive, hp, Industry Trends, Ingres, InnoDB, Java, MyISAM, mySQL, NoSQL, oracle, PostgreSQL, Red Hat, sap, Vectorwise, windows | 1 Response

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