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

How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 2 – Teradata Intelligent Memory

This is the second post (see Part 1 here) on how vendors adjust their architecture without admitting that the previous … More

Back to more geeky topics… although my Mom loved the videos… When very high performance is required to return key … More

I’m working on a new idea… it may or may not pan out… but here are some concepts for your consideration… … More

I would like to point out a very important section in the paper on Hekaton on the Microsoft Research site … More

This short post is intended to provide a quick warning regarding in-memory columnar and cpu requirements… with a longer post … More

IBM is presenting a DB2 Tech Talk that compares the BLU Accelerator to HANA. There are several mistakes and some … More

I recently listened to a session by Juan Loalza of Oracle on the 12c In-memory option. Here are my notes … More

I changed the picture to show you the billboard SAP bought on US101N right across from the O HQ… – … More

As I noted here, I think that the IBM BLU Accelerator is a very nice piece of work. Readers of … More