In this blog I have stated explicitly and implied now and again that the big architectural features are what count… despite the fact that little features are often what are marketed. Here is a true story to reinforce this theme… and a reminder of the implications… a real-life battle between two vendors: we’ll call them…
In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the first level, PAX, which provides columnar compression. This apparently is the level Exadata operates at with its Hybrid Columnar Compression. In this post we will consider the next two levels of maturity: early materialized column…
There are three forms of columnar-orientation currently deployed by database systems today. Each builds upon the next. The simplest form uses column-orientation to provide better data compression. The next level of maturity stores columnar data in separate structures to support columnar projection. The most mature implementations support a columnar database engine that performs relational algebra…
I renamed this so that Teradata folks would not get here so often… its not really about Intelligent Memory… just prompted by it. The post on Intelligent Memory is here. – Rob Two quick comments on Teradata’s recent announcement of Intelligent Memory. First… very very cool. More on this to come. Next… life is going…
This is a rehash of my post for SAP here… I thought you might find it interesting as it describes the architecture HANA uses to support OLTP and BI against a single table. A couple of points to think about: If you have only one database structure you can optimize for only one query; e.g.…
I was recently reminded of a couple of papers written by Jim Gray and Gianfranco Putzolu that calculated the cost of keeping data in memory vs the cost of paging it in from disk. I was happy to see that the thread was being kept alive by Goetz Graefe. These papers used the cost of…
There is still an open question over whether, after the Big Bang, there is enough mass in the Universe to slow the expansion and cause the universe to contract. While the Big Data Bang continues to expand the universe of bits and bytes… I would like to ask whether some of these numbers are overstated?…
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