Last year two associates from Greenplum suggested that I read a very smart academic paper titled “Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query … More
Tag: Column-oriented DBMS
How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 2 – Teradata Intelligent Memory
This is the second post (see Part 1 here) on how vendors adjust their architecture without admitting that the previous … More
Some Database Performance Concepts
I’m working on a new idea… it may or may not pan out… but here are some concepts for your consideration… … More
Dynamic Late Binding Schemas on Need
I very much like Curt Monash’s posts on dynamic schemas and schema-on-need… here and here are two examples. They make me … More
HANA, BLU, Hekaton, and Oracle 12c vs. Teradata and Greenplum – November 2013
I would like to point out a very important section in the paper on Hekaton on the Microsoft Research site … More
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
Oracle 12c IMDB Announcement at OOW13
I changed the picture to show you the billboard SAP bought on US101N right across from the O HQ… – … More
Who Out-performs Who: A Story…
In this blog I have stated explicitly and implied now and again that the big architectural features are what count… … More
Who is How Columnar? Exadata, Teradata, and HANA – Part 2: Column Processing
In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More
Who is How Columnar? Exadata, Teradata, and HANA – Part 1: Column Compression
There are three forms of columnar-orientation currently deployed by database systems today. Each builds upon the next. The simplest form … More