Over the next several weeks, I’ll share my perspective of current best practices for big data, which is the term … More
Tag: Parallel computing
Hadoop and ETL
My last post (here) blathered about the effect that Hadoop must have on database vendor profits. An associate wrote me with … More
The Greenplum ORCA Optimizer
In January Greenplum rolled out a new query optimizer. This is very cool and very advanced stuff. Query optimization is … More
NoCOUG Referral
I would like to point you to two articles in the latest Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) Journal here. … More
A Big Data Sound Bite…
Here is a sound bite on Big Data I composed for another source… Big Data is relative. For some firms … More
Co-processing and Exadata
In my first blog (here) I discussed the implications of using co-processors to offload CPU. The point was that with … More
Exalytics vs. HANA: What are they thinking?
I’ve been trying to sort through the noise around Exalytics and see if there are any conclusions to be drawn … More