In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More
Tag: Greenplum
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
Hadoop and the EDW
Cloudera and Teradata have jointly published a nice paper here that presents an interesting perspective of how Hadoop and an EDW … More
Wondering About Netezza… and A Teradata Prediction Comes True…
If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here that Teradata would go away from ByNet… and lo … 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
Some Unaudited HANA Performance Numbers
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
HAWQ and Hadoop and Open Source and a Wacky Idea
I want to soften my criticism of Greenplum‘s announcement of HAWQ a little. This post by Merv Adrian convinced me … More
Aster Data for a price…
If Greenplum HAWQ does not look promising (see my previous posts on HAWQ here and here) what are the prospects for Teradata Aster … More
HAWQ Performance Marketing
My contacts from Strata read my post here and provided me with the following information: The performance numbers quoted for … More