Thinking About the Pivotal Announcements…

Yesterday I provided a model for how business sees open source as a means to be profitable (here). This is the … More

How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 1 – Oracle Exadata

Database vendors don’t usually admit to shortcomings… they protest that they have no shortcomings until the market suggests otherwise… then … More

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

There are so many things in the Internet of Things (IoT) that might record data into your data fabric that … More

Continuing this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) I have suggested that we could … More

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

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

I just finished a draft for next week on Big Data and thought that with this note I might form … More

I renamed this so that Teradata folks would not get here so often… its not really about Intelligent Memory… just … More

Jason asked a great question in the comment section here… he asked… does Teradata’s Intelligent Memory erode HANA’s value proposition? … More