Trends in Systems Architecture and the HANA Platform

This post is a follow on to the video on Systems Architecture here (video). I’ll describe how HANA, the Platform … More

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

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

I would like to recommend to you John Appleby’s post here on the HANA blog site. While the title suggests the … More

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

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

When I was at Greenplum… and now again at SAP… I ran into a strange logic from Teradata about query … More

I recently pointed out some silliness published by Teradata to several SAP prospects. There is more nonsense that was sent … More

One more surprise… In the past SAP applications have, in general, avoided using database features. Even a SELECT with … More

I found myself wondering where did the rule-of-thumb for Exalytics that suggests that TimesTen can use 800GB of a 1TB … More