Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … More
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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
Part 6: How Hadooped is HANA?
Now for HANA plus Hadoop… to continue this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, … More
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 … More
HANA vs. Other In-memory Capabilities… Or Why I am not in Marketing…
I was asked to compose a post for the SAP HANA blog to help position HANA versus the other in-memory … More
BLU Meanies: Data In-memory
IBM is presenting a DB2 Tech Talk that compares the BLU Accelerator to HANA. There are several mistakes and some … More
New SAP Post: HANA, Columns, and OLTP
I posted some thoughts about HANA and OLTP here… it is pretty fair and straightforward, I hope… but as I … More
IBM BLU and SAP HANA
As I noted here, I think that the IBM BLU Accelerator is a very nice piece of work. Readers of … More
HANA Memory Utilization
The current release of HANA requires that all of the data required to satisfy a query be in-memory to run … More
Who is How Columnar? Exadata, Teradata, and HANA – Part 2: Column Processing
In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More