Before this series is complete, I plan on defining in some detail what the various levels of Cloud-nativeness might be … More
Category: Database Hardware
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
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
Some Database Performance Concepts
I’m working on a new idea… it may or may not pan out… but here are some concepts for your consideration… … More
CPUs and HW for HANA, BLU, Hekaton, and Oracle 12c
This short post is intended to provide a quick warning regarding in-memory columnar and cpu requirements… with a longer post … More
Cloud DBMS < High Performance DBMS
In my post here I suggested that database computing was becoming a special case of high-performance computing. This trend will … More
Database Computing is Supercomputing… Some external reading: May 2013
I would like to recommend to you John Appleby’s post here on the HANA blog site. While the title suggests the … More
Teradata CPU Planning
I suggested here that Teradata shipped the EDW 6700 series without waiting for Ivy Bridge because they could not use … More
Wondering About Netezza… and A Teradata Prediction Comes True…
If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here that Teradata would go away from ByNet… and lo … More
MPP, IMDB and Moore’s Law
In the post here I listed the units of parallelism (UoP) applied by various products on a single node. Those … More