A multi-coloured squirrel may not seem like the most obvious choice of logo for a data processing technology; then again, the team behind Apache Flink have hardly done things by the book. What start out as a University research project evolved into a fully-fledged company, complete with artfully-decapitalised name (data

Starcounter, the combined in-memory database engine and application server provider, has secured $1.8 million in financing, they announced yesterday. “We are impressed with the way Starcounter’s groundbreaking database technology helps developers bring new applications to market fast and at a low cost,” vouched Johan Englund, Investment Manager at Industrifonden. “Starcounter

Yiftach Shoolman is CTO & Co-Founder at Redis Labs, the largest commercial supporter of Redis with more than 70,000 databases under management and 3,700+ paying customers. Follow him on Twitter.   Prediction #1 – The Demand for In-Memory Databases Will Increase The expectation from modern apps is to provide a