Trends in Systems Architecture and the HANA Platform

This post is a follow on to the video on Systems Architecture here (video). I’ll describe how HANA, the Platform … More

How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 2 – Teradata Intelligent Memory

This is the second post (see Part 1 here) on how vendors adjust their architecture without admitting that the previous … More

I would like to point out a very important section in the paper on Hekaton on the Microsoft Research site … More

This short post is intended to provide a quick warning regarding in-memory columnar and cpu requirements… with a longer post … More

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

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

Jason asked a great question in the comment section here… he asked… does Teradata’s Intelligent Memory erode HANA’s value proposition? … More

If the Gartner estimates here are correct… then DRAM prices will fall 50% per year per year over the next several years… … More

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

If I were the Register I would have titled this: Raging Stuffed Elephant To Devour Two Warehouse Vendors… I love … More