Today I am going to focus on a topic that I’ve suggested previously without the right emphasis: the new database architecture that uses vector processing on compressed columns to significantly accelerate performance. This is the final post inspired by Bityota (bityota.com). They reminded me that the use of vectors, once implemented by only a few vendors,…
Hi… In between leaving SAP and starting at the Social Security Administration I did some work for Cognilytics and with Intel. They have posted a white paper I composed here, titled “High Performance Commercial Computing in 2015”. Both Cognilytics and Intel allowed me the freedom to build this as I saw fit… so it is not…
Let me start the New Year by announcing that I have a new job as the CTO of the US Social Security Administration. I am in an appointed position, part of the President’s administration, but with a technical, not a political or policy charter. It is daunting and exciting… The SSA IT staff are switched on and extremely competent……
For several years now I have been suggesting that Hadoop will squeeze the big data RDBMSs: Teradata, Exadata, Greenplum, and Netezza… squeezing them first out of the big data end of the market and then impinging on the high-end of the EDW space. Further I have suggested that there may be a significant and immediate TCO…
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 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 down predicates; and Is…
Forrester regularly provides fodder for bloggers when they report on the EDW space (see Curt Monash’s review of their last report here). They have a 2013 report out now that is quite mysterious (see here). They report that Pivotal is up there with the leading EDW vendors and positioned to move further up. Here is…
The Chinese Curse wishes that you live in interesting times… although apparently it is not so certain that this is either a curse or Chinese. During this Northern Hemisphere harvest season I would like to wish my readers a Happy Thanksgiving… and note how thankful I am to live and work in interesting times and…
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