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adding to the previous commenters: https://www.google.de/search?q=startup+jobs+munich

That's true.

I agree but only due to my lack of knowledge in both areas -- and I only have second knowledge by attending a talk of a former D-Wave user and "programmer". That is, and contrastin…

In Berlin, there is the 'Social Impact Hub' http://socialimpact.eu/ of which I am not affiliated with nor won't endorse here in any way. Sadly, in Germany at least, startups that a…

A super incomplete list: Databases: - PipelineDB - Snowflake (Computing) Internet of Things / Communications: - Helium Robotics: - Pneubotics - Kuka, namely the research department…

> Germany, despite being technologically strong, is not very inovative. At least not in the sense of new, scaling products. That's the result of a tech-centric worldview (read star…

... or aren't we supposed to work on schemes to better and more easily move computation to data? Asking for a friend...

Yes, and fragmentation of your data. Resulting in e.g. data quality problems. It's not just choice, it's choice with downsides that many seem to not really care about at all.

You are right. In the talk I gave I briefly referred to Hierarchical Database for instance. It's not in the slides because of the timeframe for the talk.

(re that Tandem paper: it's IMS / a hierarchical DB that they describe though)

for your reading pleasure, please take a look at this paper: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.6.pdf what they describe there basically is the current state of affairs…

Yes, several slides require more context. The talk was recorded and, hopefully, will be available online at http://www.nosql-matters.org/ soon.

The paper describes a system that is a library which adds distributed transactions to effectively every data store available (distributed and non-distributed). I see no reason why …

I took "MongoGate" (sorry, I just fell in love with that term) as an example of what happens when overly positive expectations hit the hard ground. Removing the hype from NoSQL ("i…