Google pledges patent support for OSS. Basho open sources Riak CS. And more

For 451 Research clients: Basho takes Riak cloud storage platform down open source path bit.ly/YChz61 By @simonrob451, and me

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Continuent expands its database vision beyond clustering and replication bit.ly/YCcgJT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 27, 2013

For 451 clients: Glassbeam plots course for its SaaS analysis service with unstructured data twist bit.ly/XDo3S1 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

For 451 clients: Our take on what the Pivotal Initiative means for EMC, VMware and software-defined everything bit.ly/XDnW95

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

Google pledges not to assert MapReduce patents against users, distributors or developers of open source software. bit.ly/WYRW1W

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 28, 2013

MapR teams with Canonical bit.ly/13B3Sfk releases source code for Hadoop modifications on GitHub. bit.ly/13B42DC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 28, 2013

Nice intro from Hortonworks for anyone looking for help understanding Hadoop 2.0. bit.ly/XDodZA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

Platfora’s native in-memory business intelligence platform for Hadoop is now generally available. bit.ly/XDofk1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

Akiban Server is OSS bit.ly/YChK12

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2013

(Apache) Tajo (incubating) is a relational and distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop. bit.ly/YChNdr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Quantcast launches HDFS alternative. Glassbeam eyes funding. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Quantcast launches open source Hadoop file system alternative bit.ly/Ot6Zz6 Analyst Note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2012

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – rebooted bit.ly/QZGZHP MongoDB accounts for 43% of all mentions of NoSQL projects in LinkedIn profiles

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2012

For 451 clients: Glassbeam eyes series A funding, illuminates roadmap for machine-generated analytics bit.ly/UMaMsz By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

For 451 Research clients: ‘Big data’ and development platform are the next steps for Splunk bit.ly/UMaBgM By Dennis Callaghan

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

View the webinar The Business Advantage of Hadoop: Lessons from the Field bit.ly/QnLqPh w/ @451research, @yp, @blackberry, @mikeolson

— Cloudera (@cloudera) September 26, 2012

Quantcast launches QFS – an open source alternative to HDFS, evolved from Kosmos/CloudStore bit.ly/Sca5CU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

Derrick Harris has more detail on Quantcast’s bigger, faster, stronger Hadoop file system gigaom.com/data/quantcast…

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

Interesting new perspective on bug fix test case brouhaha RT @webmink: Oracle Claims MySQL IS Safe With Them:wmk.me/PpXGvM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

MariaDB directions: multi-source replication & more! blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-direct…

— SkySQL Ab (@skysql) September 28, 2012

Huge news: Basho Japan has officially opened its doors! #Riak basho.com/news/basho_ope…

— Basho Technologies (@basho) September 27, 2012

What no Big Data 2.0? RT @datameer: What is going to replace the “Big Data” buzzword & when? @kdnuggets poll results: bit.ly/UIKBD1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.