Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years ago Netezza shook up the DW DBMS market with a parallel database machine that could compete with Teradata. About six years ago Greenplum entered the market with a commodity-based product that was competitive… and then…
Here are two videos of me speaking from the 2013 Intel Developer Forum FYI. The first has some technical detail: The second is more of a PR pitch about Intel Hadoop: I’m working with Intel on a new video with a pretty interesting storyline (at least I hope that you find it interesting?)… so stay…
Now for HANA plus Hadoop… to continue this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) 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…
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…
I was asked to compose a post for the SAP HANA blog to help position HANA versus the other in-memory DBs… a marketing post… not a technical post. The result here makes it clear why I am not in marketing… it sounds like someone trying too hard to be a marketeer… Still… you might like the comments…
IBM is presenting a DB2 Tech Talk that compares the BLU Accelerator to HANA. There are several mistakes and some odd thinking in the pitch so let me address the issues as a way to explain some things about HANA and about BLU. This blog will consider what data needs to be in-memory. IBM like…
I posted some thoughts about HANA and OLTP here… it is pretty fair and straightforward, I hope… but as I always point out when I mention a work post on this blog… when I am there I do not promise to be objective… it is my job.
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