This week I’m attending an interesting conference at UC Berkeley called the “Berkeley conference on Streaming Data”.  The organizers are primarily astronomers and statisticians, but the talks discuss issues and solutions to streaming data problems across a wide selection of scientific areas and engineering applications.  Real-time streaming Big Data applications presented included oceanography biology genetics, reading Read more →

SQL is a declarative language – a SQL query is a specification for the result, it’s neither a recipe nor a program to produce the results. A traditional relational database query returns a set of rows, the ResultSet. A streaming SQL query in SQLstream returns a stream of rows. That is, the ResultSet may never Read more →

SQLstream is helping to predict earthquakes across the world in real time. The system has been developed by a consortium of universities and government agencies, with funding from NSF (National Science Foundation), to provide an infrastructure of networked tools for research in ocean science – constructing an internet-based system to collect and share data. This Read more →