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Tag: IBM
Netezza Workload Management
@henryccook made an interesting point regarding Netezza workload management this morning… He suggested that once a SPU is engaged by … More
30+ Year Old Database Architecture: DB2, Oracle, Postgres, Teradata, Sybase, and More…
As you look at the enterprise RDBMS marketplace today you will find something shocking… almost every product in the market … More
The Five Minute Rule and In-memory Databases
I was recently reminded of a couple of papers written by Jim Gray and Gianfranco Putzolu that calculated the cost … More
Cloud Computing and Data Warehousing: Part 3 – ParAccel on EC2
In the previous post here I suggested that a SAN-based, cloudy, EDW is about 4X the cost for the same … More
Teradata’s Excellent Memory Management… and Poor Memory Utilization
I was recently surprised to hear from a prospect that Teradata’s memory management was considered a differentiator over Greenplum. This … More
