A Segue from ETL to DB

This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture … More

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

Hi… In between leaving SAP and starting at the Social Security Administration I did some work for Cognilytics and with Intel. … More

Let me start the New Year by announcing that I have a new job as the CTO of the US Social … More

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

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

Forrester regularly provides fodder for bloggers when they report on the EDW space (see Curt Monash’s review of their last … More

The Chinese Curse wishes that you live in interesting times… although apparently it is not so certain that this is … More

Here is some anti-FUD from John Appleby titled “The Top 10 SAP HANA Myths Spread by Other Vendors”… well worth … More

I would like to recommend to you John Appleby’s post here on the HANA blog site. While the title suggests the … More