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 7 – How Hadooped is Greenplum, the Pivotal GPDB?

Now for Greenplum & Hadoop… to continue this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6) I have suggested … 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 5: A Review of Processing Push-down

Continuing this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) I have suggested that we could … 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

The Hype of Big Data

As preface to this you might check out the definition I suggested for Big Data last week here… – Rob … More

The Big Data Devil

I just finished a draft for next week on Big Data and thought that with this note I might form … More

Thinking about BI: Infographics is the next phase…

I have been thinking about BI… prompted by a friend, Frank Bien, who is the CTO of Looker (you are welcome, … More

HANA Memory Utilization

The current release of HANA requires that all of the data required to satisfy a query be in-memory to run … More