The current release of HANA requires that all of the data required to satisfy a query be in-memory to run … More
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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
Database Computing is Supercomputing… Some external reading: May 2013
I would like to recommend to you John Appleby’s post here on the HANA blog site. While the title suggests 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
How Good Is Teradata’s Intelligent Memory?
Jason asked a great question in the comment section here… he asked… does Teradata’s Intelligent Memory erode HANA’s value proposition? … More
Memory Trends and HANA
If the Gartner estimates here are correct… then DRAM prices will fall 50% per year per year over the next several years… … 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