Here is a short story about distributed versus monolithic application design… Around 1999 Dan Holle and I started thinking about…
A Short DW DBMS Market History: HANA, Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata, & Greenplum
Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years…
Hadoop and ETL
My last post (here) blathered about the effect that Hadoop must have on database vendor profits. An associate wrote me with…
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…
Trends in Systems Architecture and the HANA Platform
This post is a follow on to the video on Systems Architecture here (video). I’ll describe how HANA, the Platform…
More Database Supercomputing Technology
Last year two associates from Greenplum suggested that I read a very smart academic paper titled “Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query…
Database Super-computing
Today I am going to focus on a topic that I’ve suggested previously without the right emphasis: the new database…
A New Way of Thinking About EDW Federation
There is a new way to think about data warehouse architecture. The Gartner Group calls it a logical data warehouse…
An Elastic Shared-Nothing Architecture
In this post we will consider again the implications of implementing a shared-nothing architecture in the cloud. That is, we…
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.…
