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