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Coarse-grained Cloud Economics

Let’s further discuss DW economics in the cloud. Imagine that DW#2 in Figure 1 supports queries from your corporate finance … More

Computing, Database, Economics, Hardware, Programming, Technology

A Segue from ETL to DB

This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture … More

Cloud computing, Computing, Database, Economics, Technology

More on Cloud Data Elasticity

The last post (here) demonstrated how scalability in the cloud provides the ability to reduce runtimes from days or hours … More

Computing, Data Warehouse, Database, Economics, Technology

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

A Short DW DBMS Market History: HANA, Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata, & Greenplum

Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … More

12c, Analytics, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Databases, EDW, Greenplum, Greenplum Database, HANA, Netezza, Oracle, Teradata

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

Analytics, Column-oriented DBMS, Database, Databases

Database Super-computing

Today I am going to focus on a topic that I’ve suggested previously without the right emphasis: the new database … More

Data mining, Database, Hardware, Memory, Technology

How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 3 – EDW on IBM z/OS

This is the 3rd and final example of a vendor admitting, without admitting, to an architectural limitation. The first two … More

Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Databases, EDW, IBM

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