How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 1 – Oracle Exadata

Database vendors don’t usually admit to shortcomings… they protest that they have no shortcomings until the market suggests otherwise… then … More

Part 3: A Quick Follow-on on Parallel Databases

In the thread I’m now working on (Part 1, Part 2) I’ve talked about Exadata and a criteria for evaluating … More

In my blog yesterday (Part 1) I suggested that we could evaluate RDBMS-Hadoop integration architecture using three criteria: How parallel … More

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

Here are some quick thoughts on Oracle 12c… First, I appreciate the tone of the announcements. They were … More

In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More

There are three forms of columnar-orientation currently deployed by database systems today. Each builds upon the next. The simplest form … More

Since my blogs tend to be in response to some stimulus they may not reflect a holistic view on any … More