A Short DW DBMS Market History: HANA, Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata, & Greenplum

Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … 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

Now for HANA plus Hadoop… to continue this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, … More

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

I was asked to compose a post for the SAP HANA blog to help position HANA versus the other in-memory … More

IBM is presenting a DB2 Tech Talk that compares the BLU Accelerator to HANA. There are several mistakes and some … More

I posted some thoughts about HANA and OLTP here… it is pretty fair and straightforward, I hope… but as I … More

As I noted here, I think that the IBM BLU Accelerator is a very nice piece of work. Readers of … More

The current release of HANA requires that all of the data required to satisfy a query be in-memory to run … More

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