Let’s further discuss DW economics in the cloud. Imagine that DW#2 in Figure 1 supports queries from your corporate finance … More
Category: Data Warehouse
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
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
A New Way of Thinking About EDW Federation
There is a new way to think about data warehouse architecture. The Gartner Group calls it a logical data warehouse … More
How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 3 – EDW on IBM z/OS
This is the 3rd and final example of a vendor admitting, without admitting, to an architectural limitation. The first two … More
Thinking About the Pivotal Announcements…
Yesterday I provided a model for how business sees open source as a means to be profitable (here). This is the … More
Open Source is Not a Market…
This post is more about the technology business than about technology… but it may be relevant as you try to … More
A Modern Data Warehouse Architecture: Part 3 – Build an EDW Annex
In the first two post of this series (here and here) I first suggested that Hadoop could be effectively used … More
A Modern Data Warehouse Architecture: Part 2 – Make it a Logical Data Warehouse
In the first post of this series (here) I suggested that Hadoop could be effectively used as the platform for … More