The startup, Legalprise, launched to track court records, has become the popular kid on the foreclosure block due to the mortgage industry’s tragic situation. The searchable database of every foreclosure filing and every related docket entry for five states plans to expand to cover the 23 states where foreclosures are part of a judicial process. Ultimately, the company's goal is a nationwide, searchable repository of legal documents and public records.
“NoSQL” has been thrown around a lot lately, but what exactly does it mean? It is a generic term that describes any data management system that does not use SQL as a query interface. Early on the positioning was much more aggressive, but more recently this has been softened so now NoSQL is commonly quoted as meaning of “Not only SQL”; in other words, one of many tools.
Accenture is deploying its digital diagnostics engine, which scans websites to identify performance problems and structural deficiencies, into the Windows Azure platform. This news was announced at the third annual Microsoft 2010 Asia High Tech Summit in Tokyo.
Reaching across the waters, the French national library BNF has chosen Microsoft’s Bing to improve access to the 1.25 million documents on the Gallica digital library. It covers works that are in the public domain.
Hadoop began as a tool for indexing Web pages, now the open source framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.