Chris Lynch

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Accumulo: Why The World Needs Another NoSQL Database

Jeff Kelly | siliconangle.com | August 20, 2012

If you’ve been unable to keep up with all the competing NoSQL databases that have hit the market over the last several years, you’re not alone. To name just a few, there’s HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4J. To that list you can add Accumulo, an open source database originally developed at the National Security Agency... Read More »

Ex-Vertica CEO: Hadoop Is Pulling The Rug From Under The Database Industry

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | November 2, 2013

Venture capitalist Chris Lynch has disrupted the database industry before as CEO of Vertica Systems, but now he’s watching Hadoop take it to the next level. Here are his thoughts on the challenges legacy vendors face and who’s positioned to ride the big data wave. Read More »

NSA's Big Data Platform Faces Enterprise Test

J. Nicholas Hoover | InformationWeek | October 11, 2012

Accumulo, the data storage software developed by the National Security Agency, has taken another step toward the enterprise market. Sqrrl, the startup launched by former NSA technologists to commercialize Accumulo, has teamed up with Apache Hadoop provider Hortonworks to combine their technologies. Read More »

Sqrrl Snags $5.2M To Commercialize The NSA’s Accumulo Database

Barb Darrow and Derrick Harris | GigaOM | October 21, 2013

New funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Ventures will help the NoSQL database vendor push its product globally. Read More »