I renamed this so that Teradata folks would not get here so often… its not really about Intelligent Memory… just … More
Tag: In-memory database
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
A Look Back at 2012
There seems to be a sort of odd tradition for bloggers to look back at the past year as the … More
Mobile Clients Require High Performance BI Computing
I posted a blog on the SAP site here that discussed the implications of mobile clients. I want to re-emphasize … More
The Teradata Myth of Query Concurrency
When I was at Greenplum… and now again at SAP… I ran into a strange logic from Teradata about query … More
Teradata’s HANA Mathematics
I recently pointed out some silliness published by Teradata to several SAP prospects. There is more nonsense that was sent … More
Teradata, HANA and NUMA
Teradata is circulating a document to customers that claims that the numbers SAP has published in its 100TB PoC white … More
Price/Performance of HANA, Exadata, Teradata, and Greenplum
Here is an attempt to build a Price/Performance model for several data warehouse databases. Added on February 21, 2013: This … More