Hadoop and ETL

My last post (here) blathered about the effect that Hadoop must have on database vendor profits. An associate wrote me with … More

Hadoop and Company Financial Performance

I have posted several times about the impact of the Hadoop eco-system on a several companies (here, here, here, for … 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

Hadoop Squeezes Greenplum

For several years now I have been suggesting that Hadoop will squeeze the big data RDBMSs: Teradata, Exadata, Greenplum, and … More

Using Teradata’s Appliance for Hadoop to Reduce TCO

Teradata has recently announced a very complete Teradata database-to-Hadoop integration. Is this note we’ll consider how a Teradata shop might … More

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 … 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

Part 4: How Hadooped is Teradata?

In this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) I have suggested that we could evaluate integration … More

Part 1: How Hadooped is Your RDBMS?

Sorry for the comic adjective “Hadooped”? The next few blogs will try to evaluate the different approaches to integrating Hadoop … More

Aster Data, HAWQ, GPDB and the First Hadoop Squeeze

I have suggested that the big EDW parallel databases: Teradata, Exadata, Greenplum, and Netezza in particular will be squeezed over … More