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Refactoring Databases P2.75: REST and ORB Thoughts

I’m riffing on database design and modeling in an agile methodology. In the previous post here I suggested that we … More

Agile, Database, Database management system, Databases, ORB, Refactoring, RESTful Apps

Refactoring Databases P2.5: Scoping the Cheats

One of the side-effects of the little cheat posted here is that, if we are going to design early we … More

Agile, Data Model, Database, Database management system, Databases, Refactoring

Refactoring Databases P2: Cheating a Little

In this post I am going to suggest doing a little design a little upfront and violating the purity of … More

Agile, Database, Database management system, Databases, Refactoring

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

Column-oriented DBMS, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Database management system, Databases, EDW, IMDB, In-memory database, Teradata

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

Column-oriented DBMS, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Database management system, EDW

Specialized Databases vs. Swiss Army Knives

Michael Stonbreaker has suggested several times… and again in this interview… that  databases will become more specialized and that “one size … More

Database, Database management system, Databases

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

BLU, Central processing unit, Column-oriented DBMS, Components, Database management system, Exadata, Exalytics, Greenplum Database, HANA, Hardware, IBM, IMDB, In-memory database, Online transaction processing, SAP, SAP AG, Teradata

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

Big Data, Database management system, HANA, Hawaii, In-memory database, Maui, Teradata, United States

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

Column-oriented DBMS, Data compression, Data Warehousing, Database, Database management system, EDW, Exadata, Greenplum Database, HANA, INSERT, Netezza, Online transaction processing, Oracle Exadata, Run-length encoding, SQL Server, Teradata

Indexes are not a good thing… A blog on TCO

In many of my posts I refer to the issues associated with building “extra” data structures to meet performance goals … More

Data mart, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database management system, EDW, Exalytics, Greenplum Database, Materialized view, Netezza, OLAP cube, Oracle, Teradata, Vertica, Vertica Systems

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