Part 2: Evaluating Exadata… Does it stack up with RDBMS-Hadoop systems?

In my blog yesterday (Part 1) I suggested that we could evaluate RDBMS-Hadoop integration architecture using three criteria: How parallel … 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

In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More

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

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

6 May… There is a good summary of this post and on the comments here. – Rob 17 April… A … More

Since my blogs tend to be in response to some stimulus they may not reflect a holistic view on any … More

There seems to be a sort of odd tradition for bloggers to look back at the past year as the … More

I posted a blog on the SAP site here that discussed the implications of mobile clients. I want to re-emphasize … More

Here is an attempt to build a Price/Performance model for several data warehouse databases. Added on February 21, 2013: This … More