Now for SQL Server… continuing the thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7) I have suggested that we could evaluate integration architecture using three criteria: How parallel are the pipes to move data between the RDBMS and the parallel file system; Is there intelligence to push down predicates; and Is…
I would like to point out a very important section in the paper on Hekaton on the Microsoft Research site here. I will quote the section in total: 2. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS An analysis done early on in the project drove home the fact that a 10-100X throughput improvement cannot be achieved by optimizing existing SQL…
This post has been thrown at me a couple of times now… so I’ll now take the time to go through it… and try to address the junk. It starts by suggesting that “the Germans” have started a war… but the next sentence points out that the author tossed grenades at HANA two months before…
Here is one I composed for SAP on the HANA blog about the recent Microsoft SQL Server announcements that is not too obnoxiously pro-HANA. It is more about the data architecture required to handle a world where the client is a mobile device and every query must complete sub-second. This, I believe is where we…
As you look at the enterprise RDBMS marketplace today you will find something shocking… almost every product in the market is built based on designs and concepts that are over thirty years old. IBM’s System R grew into DB2 and influenced Oracle before 1980. Ingres, developed before 1980, became Postgres which became Netezza and Greenplum…
The SAP Business guy at Virtustream including EMC Federation
A melting pot for Enterprise Software, Analytics, Food, Sports, Politics and everything else that interests me
database research in the real world
Platform, Database and Storage Topics
Research into current database technology
It is about Architecture... not about Marketing...
