More Database Supercomputing Technology

Last year two associates from Greenplum suggested that I read a very smart academic paper titled “Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query … More

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

I’m working on a new idea… it may or may not pan out… but here are some concepts for your consideration… … More

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

I would like to point out a very important section in the paper on Hekaton on the Microsoft Research site … More

This short post is intended to provide a quick warning regarding in-memory columnar and cpu requirements… with a longer post … More

I changed the picture to show you the billboard SAP bought on US101N right across from the O HQ… – … More

In this blog I have stated explicitly and implied now and again that the big architectural features are what count… … More

In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More

There are three forms of columnar-orientation currently deployed by database systems today. Each builds upon the next. The simplest form … More