This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture … More
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Database Super-computing
Today I am going to focus on a topic that I’ve suggested previously without the right emphasis: the new database … More
High Performance Commercial Computing
Hi… In between leaving SAP and starting at the Social Security Administration I did some work for Cognilytics and with Intel. … More
A New Year Announcement
Let me start the New Year by announcing that I have a new job as the CTO of the US Social … 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
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
Pivotal GPDB and the 2013 Forrester Wave EDW Report
Forrester regularly provides fodder for bloggers when they report on the EDW space (see Curt Monash’s review of their last … More
Not a curse…
The Chinese Curse wishes that you live in interesting times… although apparently it is not so certain that this is … More
Anti-FUD
Here is some anti-FUD from John Appleby titled “The Top 10 SAP HANA Myths Spread by Other Vendors”… well worth … More
Database Computing is Supercomputing… Some external reading: May 2013
I would like to recommend to you John Appleby’s post here on the HANA blog site. While the title suggests the … More