Recent and Selected Articles
This page contains a selection of articles and presentations from the past fifteen years that I think are still relevant or at least interesting. A list of archived articles can be found here.
You can see a full list of Database Trends and Applications columns here.
Bring your own Data to Generative AI with RAG - DBTA March 2024
Long-term integrity for electronic signatures - OneSpan Blog Feb 2024
Large Language Models May Have Unacceptable Carbon Footprints - DBTA Feb 2024
OneSpan predictions for E-Signatures, AI, Bloockchain and beyond in 2024 - VMBlog.com December 2023
Safeguarding Truth in the Digital Era - with David Berlind and Adam Rose - December 2023
AI Coding assistants - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - DBTA December 2023
How to Choose a Database - Quest Empower with Michael O’Donnell - November 2023
OneSpans New Quantum Safe blockchain storage - Gossip about Gossip November 2023
The Greening of the Blockchains - DBTA November 2023
Addressing the Challenges of Quantum Computing - Australia FInTech Association Webinar - October 2023
Quantum Computing Security Challenges - DBTA August 2023
The ArWeave Forever Store - DBTA June 2023
ChatGPT and Databases - Apr 2023
MongoDB Queryable Encryption - Mar 2023
Your Next Wallet might be Digital - DBTA Feb 2023
Webinar with @chriscasano on Distributed Transactional Applications - CockroachDB Feb 2023
Architecting Distributed Transactional Applications - OReilly report Jan 2023
NFT Storage - Why it matters - Hedera Guest Blog Dec 2022
ProvenDB and alwaysNFT - Hedera podcast Nov 2022
JSON Support in PostgreSQL and MongoDB - DBTA Nov 2022
PostgreSQL - state of play - DBTA Oct 2022
MongoDB’s new NoSQL-SQL - DBTA Sep 2022
CockroachDB meets Web3 - CockroachLabs blog - Sep 2022
NFTs may someday serve a serious purpose - DBTA Aug 2022
NFT storage guide - Metroids Aug 2022
SQL survives and Thrives in the post-NoSQL Era - DBTA Jun 2022
Meet the Guy who wrote the book on CockroachDB - CockroachLabs blog May 2022
IPFS Comes of Age in the NFT era - DBTA April 2022
The Past, Present, and Future of Open Source Databases - DBTA Feb 2022
Is Serverless the Next Step for Cloud Databases? - DBTA Jan 2022
MongoDB 5.0: Worth the wait - DBTA July 2021
Are NFTs breaking Ethereum? - DBTA June 2021
Hoss Talks FOSS podcast - June 2021
Top 10 Tips for MongoDB Performance - Perconna Live 2021
Next Generation Databases - Perconna Live 2021
MongoDB, meet Kubernetes - DBTA May 2021
Dremio Reinvigorates the Data Lake - DBTA Apr 2021
How WiredTiger revolutionised MongoDB - DBTA Mar 2021
CockroachDB - DBTA Dec 2020
The Database Landscape 2021 - DBTA
Webinair with Hedera Data Integrity for Information
GoodBye Eliot, Hello Mark Porter - DBTA Nov 2020
QLDB paves the way for Blockchain databases - DBTA Sep 2020
Microsoft Embraces Digital Identity - DBTA August 2020
Blockchain is part of Australia's Cyber security Solution - quoted by CoinTelegraph.
Gossip about Gossip - Hedera podcast July 2020. Blockchains and databases
How will Covid-19 affect emerging technologies? - DBTA June 2020
The last decade brought a dark revolution in Technology - DBTA Feb 2020
What does Quantum supremacy mean for databases? DBTA Dec 2019
The Rise and Fall of Hadoop DBTA October 2019
Leveraging the Power of Blockchain in Databases - JAXenter - August 2019
With Cosmos DB Microsoft Attempts a One Size Fits All Database DBTA August 2019
MongoDB Strives for a Perfect Consensus DBTA July 2019
Cloud Vendors Fight for Private Blockchain Dominance DBTA June 2019
Spanner stretches the CAP theorem DBTA Apr 2019
Amazon's war with MongoDB heats up DBTA Mar 2019
A big Year ahead for Ethereum DBTA Feb 2019
Understanding the MongoDB server-side license DBTA Jan 2019
Web Services move forward with GraphQL DBTA December 2018
MongoDB goes Mobile DBTA Mongo Matters November 2018
Blockchain Enables Unique Digital Proofs DBTA Oct 2018
Your Car will soon be smarter than you DBTA Aug 2018
Data modelling in MongoDB - DBTA Mar 2018
IOTA Aims Beyond the Blockchain - DBTA Feb 2018
Sealing MongoDB data on the blockchain - DZone Jan 2018
Effective MongoDB Indexing (pt 2) - DZone Dec 2017
Effective MongoDB indexing - Dzone Nov 2017
Bulk operations in MongoDB - Dzone Nov 2017
Getting Started with MongoDB Explain - Dzone Nov 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
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
Databases of the future - DBTA March 2016
SAFe Provides a Recipe for Agile at Enterprise Scale - Database Trends and Applications, March 2016
Quantum Computing is Not Science Fiction- Database Trends and Applications, January 2016
Dispatches from the Big Data revolution - Big Data Sourcebook, 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
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
Fundamentals of Big Data Analytics DBTA, June 2014
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
#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
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
Machine Learning drives competitive advantage - dbta Sep 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)
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
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
Is the next DBMS revolution looming - (part1, part2) Database Trends and Applications June 2008
MySQL Stored Procedures: Relic or Revolution - Linux Journal December 2007