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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Josh Berkus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Jacek, > > I'd like to make sure that the appropriate people from the open source > and startup domains are being invited to this. Particularly: > > Open Source: > > LucidDB > MonetDB > Had 'em last year. (Martin Kersten) > Hadoop > > Ditto (Jeff Hammerbacher) > Startup: > > Greenplum (I no longer work there) > Ditto (Luke Lonergan) > Aster Data > I agree. And Jacek is obviously in touch with them. > Truviso > Why? They're spinning their wheels. I'd ask a big-company CEP player ahead of them. E.g., IBM Streams is actually used in science in a place or two. http://www.dbms2.com/2009/05/13/ibm-system-s-infosphere-streams-processing/ > Paraccel > I'd put Vertica way ahead of them, and not just because they're a bigger company run by more truthful people supporting bigger databases. It's also because I think they have more business on the telemetry/instrumentation side (e.g., intelligence community). Come to think of it, that's a reason to put StreamBase into the CEP hopper. And so we're up to at least three Mike Stonebraker companies ... InfoBright > If just for the open source angle, I'd agree. (Bob Zurek is the obvious person to contact.) And ditto VectorWise/Ingres, which is NOT the same thing as MonetDB. CAM > > I also may want to swap myself as the PostgreSQL person at XLDB, since > lately I've been working almost entirely on scalable web apps instead of > large databases. I'll recommend an appropriate person. > > --Josh Berkus >