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5 predictions on the future of databases (from a guy who knows databases)

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Michael Stonebraker is a lightning rod in the database world. He knows his stuff, having helped create some of the most-popular database systems around — Postgres, Ingres and Vertica. One of his most-recent endeavors (among many), VoltDB, is an in-memory OLTP (online transaction processing) system he claims is two orders of magnitude faster than legacy options.

Yet, Stonebraker’s opinions throughout the years have been fairly controversial, garnering support on one hand and vehement opposition on the other. In 2011, for example, he told me that Facebook was trapped in a MySQL “fate worse than death” — and, boy, the backlash came fast and furious.

Stonebraker came on our Structure Show podcast this week to talk about his assessment of the database market as it stands today, including the fate of NoSQL, Oracle and, yes, Facebook’s MySQL installation. Here are some of the highlights, but if anyone into building…

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Secret court agrees to publish Yahoo PRISM proceedings

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Tech companies and civil liberties groups won a small victory on Monday in their struggle to shine light on the secret legal apparatus that gave rise to the government surveillance program known as PRISM.

The victory came in the form of a decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to publish legal proceedings from 2008 in which Yahoo(s yhoo) challenged the federal government’s secret demands that it participate in an automated data collection service.

In a short ruling (embedded below), the FISA Court agreed to publish its 2008 decision and the legal briefs in the case once the federal government has declassified them. The ruling follows media leaks that disclosed that Yahoo had fought against the imposition of the PRISM program five years ago — but was bound by a gag order that forbade it from even mentioning the court challenge.

In the Monday ruling, the FISA Court instructs…

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Robert Zimmerman Jr. to Piers Morgan: “There are people that would want to take the law into their own hands…they will always present a threat to George”

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History will absolve you Trayvon Martin.

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The justice system may not, but History will absolve you Trayvon Martin. I cannot help but be reminded of the word of Fidel Castro in front of a court which did everything to enact injustice upon him. 

Dear Trayvon, the world knows of your innocence and the world knows of the crime of Zimmerman. The “Justice” system of the U.S.A is laughable indeed. Even using the word “Justice” to refer to to this system disgusts me. A ruling by an oppressive system does not change the truth, it is laughable. You are innocent dear Trayvon, and Zimmerman is a murderer. He may not face the penalty in this life, it is too early to say, but he will face true Justice in the court of God. 

You are immortal now dear Trayvon, your memory is a constant reminder of injustice in this system. Your sacrifice brought the true, racist, disgusting, figure…

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Three Things About The Bedbugs (2011)

Three by M.E./Rhymes of the Times

1. They make you itch.

2. They make you scratch.

3. They may carry germs.
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Possibly, a superbug-
Found on the bed, in the
furniture, and on the rug.

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