Cloud-native Computing, Workloads, and Elasticity

Over the next several weeks, I’ll share my perspective of current best practices for big data, which is the term … More

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

In January Greenplum rolled out a new query optimizer. This is very cool and very advanced stuff. Query optimization is … More

I would like to point you to two articles in the latest Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) Journal here. … More

Here is a sound bite on Big Data I composed for another source… Big Data is relative. For some firms … More

In my first blog (here) I discussed the implications of using co-processors to offload CPU. The point was that with … More

I’ve been trying to sort through the noise around Exalytics and see if there are any conclusions to be drawn … More