Using Teradata’s Appliance for Hadoop to Reduce TCO

Teradata has recently announced a very complete Teradata database-to-Hadoop integration. Is this note we’ll consider how a Teradata shop might … More

Logical Data Warehouses and the Basics of Database Federation

This post will consider the implications of a full database federation as would be required by a Logical Data Warehouse. … More

Part 8 – How Hadooped is SQL Server PDW with Polybase?

Now for SQL Server… continuing the thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7) I have … More

Part 7 – How Hadooped is Greenplum, the Pivotal GPDB?

Now for Greenplum & Hadoop… to continue this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6) I have suggested … More

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

Part 5: A Review of Processing Push-down

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

Part 4: How Hadooped is Teradata?

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

Part 2: Evaluating Exadata… Does it stack up with RDBMS-Hadoop systems?

In my blog yesterday (Part 1) I suggested that we could evaluate RDBMS-Hadoop integration architecture using three criteria: How parallel … More

Pivotal GPDB and the 2013 Forrester Wave EDW Report

Forrester regularly provides fodder for bloggers when they report on the EDW space (see Curt Monash’s review of their last … More

Who is How Columnar? Exadata, Teradata, and HANA – Part 2: Column Processing

In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More