Part 8 – How Hadooped is SQL Server PDW with Polybase?

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…

HANA, BLU, Hekaton, and Oracle 12c vs. Teradata and Greenplum – November 2013

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…

A Rebuttal…

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…