Let’s further discuss DW economics in the cloud. Imagine that DW#2 in Figure 1 supports queries from your corporate finance … More
Category: Big Data
What is a Cloud-native Database?
Before this series is complete, I plan on defining in some detail what the various levels of Cloud-nativeness might be … More
A Segue from ETL to DB
This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture … More
Cloud-native Computing, Workloads, and Elasticity
Over the next several weeks, I’ll share my perspective of current best practices for big data, which is the term … More
Back in the saddle
In 2015, President Obama appointed me the CIO of the Social Security Administration, and I had to stop posting here. … More
Hadoop and ETL
My last post (here) blathered about the effect that Hadoop must have on database vendor profits. An associate wrote me with … More
Hadoop and Company Financial Performance
I have posted several times about the impact of the Hadoop eco-system on a several companies (here, here, here, for … More
Database Super-computing
Today I am going to focus on a topic that I’ve suggested previously without the right emphasis: the new database … More
Key Values and Key-Value Stores and In-memory Databases
Back to more geeky topics… although my Mom loved the videos… When very high performance is required to return key … More
Some HANA and Intel Videos
Here are two videos of me speaking from the 2013 Intel Developer Forum FYI. The first has some technical detail: … More
