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

The Fog is Getting Thicker…

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

Cloudera and Teradata have jointly published a nice paper here that presents an interesting perspective of how Hadoop and an EDW … More

If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here that Teradata would go away from ByNet… and lo … More

In the post here I listed the units of parallelism (UoP) applied by various products on a single node. Those … More

6 May… There is a good summary of this post and on the comments here. – Rob 17 April… A … More

The following performance numbers are being reported publicly for HANA: HANA scans data at 3MB/msec/core On a high-end 80-core server … More

I want to soften my criticism of Greenplum‘s announcement of HAWQ a little. This post by Merv Adrian convinced me … More

If Greenplum HAWQ does not look promising (see my previous posts on HAWQ here and here) what are the prospects for Teradata Aster … More

My contacts from Strata read my post here and provided me with the following information: The performance numbers quoted for … More