Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … More
Tag: Netezza
Hadoop and Company Financial Performance
I have posted several times about the impact of the Hadoop eco-system on a several companies (here, here, here, for … More
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
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
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
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
Wondering About Netezza… and A Teradata Prediction Comes True…
If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here that Teradata would go away from ByNet… and lo … 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