I’m working on a new idea… it may or may not pan out… but here are some concepts for your consideration… … More
Tag: Central processing unit
CPUs and HW for HANA, BLU, Hekaton, and Oracle 12c
This short post is intended to provide a quick warning regarding in-memory columnar and cpu requirements… with a longer post … More
Cloud DBMS < High Performance DBMS
In my post here I suggested that database computing was becoming a special case of high-performance computing. This trend will … More
MPP, IMDB and Moore’s Law
In the post here I listed the units of parallelism (UoP) applied by various products on a single node. Those … More
The Teradata Myth of Query Concurrency
When I was at Greenplum… and now again at SAP… I ran into a strange logic from Teradata about query … More
The Five Minute Rule and In-memory Databases
I was recently reminded of a couple of papers written by Jim Gray and Gianfranco Putzolu that calculated the cost … More
Co-processing and Exadata
In my first blog (here) I discussed the implications of using co-processors to offload CPU. The point was that with … More
