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How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 3 – EDW on IBM z/OS

This is the 3rd and final example of a vendor admitting, without admitting, to an architectural limitation. The first two … More

Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Databases, EDW, IBM

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

BLU, Central processing unit, Column-oriented DBMS, Components, Database management system, Exadata, Exalytics, Greenplum Database, HANA, Hardware, IBM, IMDB, In-memory database, Online transaction processing, SAP, SAP AG, Teradata

The Squeeze Hits Teradata

Teradata stock is falling hard due to guidance here that they may miss revenue targets. Analysts are downgrading the stock… … More

IBM, Investing, Netezza, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, Revenue, Squeeze, Teradata

BLU Meanies: Data In-memory

IBM is presenting a DB2 Tech Talk that compares the BLU Accelerator to HANA. There are several mistakes and some … More

BLU, DB2, HANA, IBM, IMDB, In-memory database, SAP

Oracle 12c IMDB Announcement at OOW13

I changed the picture to show you the billboard SAP bought on US101N right across from the O HQ… – … More

Column-oriented DBMS, IBM, Larry Ellison, Online transaction processing, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Exadata, SAP

IBM BLU and SAP HANA

As I noted here, I think that the IBM BLU Accelerator is a very nice piece of work. Readers of … More

Database, HANA, IBM, In-memory database, OLTP, Online transaction processing, SAP AG, SAP HANA

Chuck McDevitt: An Obituary

My friend and a major contributor to the art of database architecture, Chuck McDevitt, died last week. Five years ago … More

Aster Data, Aster Data Systems, IBM, Netezza, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, SQL, Teradata

DB2 BLU vs. Netezza… and the Winner is…

I wondered here how IBM would position DB2 with BLU versus Netezza. Please have a look before you go on… … More

Apache Hadoop, BLU, IBM, IBM DB2, Information management, Netezza, Teradata, Vertica

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

Analytics, Business intelligence, Computer memory, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Dynamic random-access memory, EDW, Flash memory, HANA, Hardware, IBM, IMDB, In-memory database, Non-volatile memory, Non-volatile random-access memory, TechTarget

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

Analytics, Business intelligence, Central processing unit, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, EDW, Exadata, Greenplum, Greenplum Database, HANA, IBM, IMDB, In-memory database, Intel, Ivy Bridge, Moore, Moore's law, Multi-core processor, Netezza, Oracle Exadata, Shared nothing architecture, Teradata

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