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

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

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

There are three forms of columnar-orientation currently deployed by database systems today. Each builds upon the next. The simplest form … More

This post has been thrown at me a couple of times now… so I’ll now take the time to go … More

This is a rehash of my post for SAP here… I thought you might find it interesting as it describes … More

There is still an open question over whether, after the Big Bang, there is enough mass in the Universe to … More

So far this blog has focused on issues related to database architecture… so this title might not seem on message. … More