Database vendors don’t usually admit to shortcomings… they protest that they have no shortcomings until the market suggests otherwise… then … More
Tag: Exadata
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
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
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
MPP, IMDB and Moore’s Law
In the post here I listed the units of parallelism (UoP) applied by various products on a single node. Those … More
MPP on HANA, Exadata, Teradata, and Netezza
6 May… There is a good summary of this post and on the comments here. – Rob 17 April… A … More
My 2 Cents: Oracle Exadata 1Q2013
Since my blogs tend to be in response to some stimulus they may not reflect a holistic view on any … More
Price/Performance of HANA, Exadata, Teradata, and Greenplum
Here is an attempt to build a Price/Performance model for several data warehouse databases. Added on February 21, 2013: This … More
NoCOUG Referral
I would like to point you to two articles in the latest Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) Journal here. … More
Co-processing and Exadata
In my first blog (here) I discussed the implications of using co-processors to offload CPU. The point was that with … More