Cloud computing is extremely powerful. Many companies dedicate a large portion of hardware processing power and data centre storage for this type of application – however, for many developers it is not easily accessible or usable as a viable means of centralised storage or application sharing. This is why there needs to be a standardised platform available for developers to easily access their cloud’s that may be spread over multiple data centres or clouds. The University of California (Berkeley) is tackling this problem with a great deal of interest. They are attempting to modify existing database programming languages and integrating the modifications into a single client platform that is able to access a variety of clouds.

Database languages aren’t really a difficult application domain – however, the diversity of languages out there make it difficult for a novice developer to really get into the specifics of a number of different … Read More