Top 10 interesting companies in Data Management

Tony Bain · 26th June 2009, 11:27 AM

A bit of fun for a Sunday.* Below is the list of my top 10 interesting companies in Data Management right now.* Interesting to me means doing new stuff and being somewhat disruptive, or have a “watch and see” quality about them.* Note this is about companies not data management applications.*

While I find a bunch of other data management applications interesting (PNUTS, Cassandra, Redis etc) these aren’t really encapsulated in a company with a go to market strategy.

10gen - They are making interesting noises not sure about delivery yet
Amazon – SimpleDB is neat, but not a grown up data platform yet
Aster Data – Doing funky things with Map/Reduce
GroovyChannel – Are they nuts, they have to change the name of GroovyDB?! *
Kickfire – I love this appliance
The Monty AB Program – Is Maria the new “peoples” MySQL
MySQL* - Because who knows how the Oracle merger will pan out
PostgreSQL Global Development Group – Or is PostreSQL the new “peoples” MySQL?
Wistla - in stealth (shhhhhhh)

Ok you are probably thinking that’s only 9.* I will take feedback in the comments below to help me choose #10 as I am currently undecided on this one.

* Update: GroovyChannel is now know as Groovy Corporation and GroovyDB is known as SQL Switch.

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26th June 2009, 11:27 AM	#1
Tony Bain Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 71	Top 10 interesting companies in Data Management A bit of fun for a Sunday.* Below is the list of my top 10 interesting companies in Data Management right now.* Interesting to me means doing new stuff and being somewhat disruptive, or have a “watch and see” quality about them.* Note this is about companies not data management applications.* While I find a bunch of other data management applications interesting (PNUTS, Cassandra, Redis etc) these aren’t really encapsulated in a company with a go to market strategy. 10gen - They are making interesting noises not sure about delivery yet Amazon – SimpleDB is neat, but not a grown up data platform yet Aster Data – Doing funky things with Map/Reduce GroovyChannel – Are they nuts, they have to change the name of GroovyDB?! * Kickfire – I love this appliance The Monty AB Program – Is Maria the new “peoples” MySQL MySQL* - Because who knows how the Oracle merger will pan out PostgreSQL Global Development Group – Or is PostreSQL the new “peoples” MySQL? Wistla - in stealth (shhhhhhh) Ok you are probably thinking that’s only 9.* I will take feedback in the comments below to help me choose #10 as I am currently undecided on this one. * Update: GroovyChannel is now know as Groovy Corporation and GroovyDB is known as SQL Switch. More...