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A Story about Teradata, Advanced Architectures, and Distributed Applications

Here is a short story about distributed versus monolithic application design… Around 1999 Dan Holle and I started thinking about … More

Distributed Computing, Shared nothing architecture, Teradata

A New Way of Thinking About EDW Federation

There is a new way to think about data warehouse architecture. The Gartner Group calls it a logical data warehouse … More

Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Databases, EDW, Hadoop, Shared nothing architecture

A Trend in Systems Architecture

I composed the video below on a contract for Intel… but they were kind enough to let me tell the … More

Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Databases, EDW, Shared nothing architecture

How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 1 – Oracle Exadata

Database vendors don’t usually admit to shortcomings… they protest that they have no shortcomings until the market suggests otherwise… then … More

Big Data, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Databases, EDW, Exadata, Shared nothing architecture

MPP, IMDB and Moore’s Law

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

Analytics, Business intelligence, Central processing unit, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, EDW, Exadata, Greenplum, Greenplum Database, HANA, IBM, IMDB, In-memory database, Intel, Ivy Bridge, Moore, Moore's law, Multi-core processor, Netezza, Oracle Exadata, Shared nothing architecture, Teradata

My 2 Cents: Oracle Exadata 1Q2013

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

Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Databases, EDW, Exadata, Oracle Exadata, Shared nothing architecture

Teradata, HANA and NUMA

Teradata is circulating a document to customers that claims that the numbers SAP has published in its 100TB PoC white … More

Big Data, Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Databases, HANA, In-memory database, Intel QuickPath Interconnect, Multi-core processor, Non-Uniform Memory Access, NUMA, Shared nothing architecture, Teradata, Xeon

SQLFire, Exalytics, TimesTen, and HANA… a quick comparison

As you may have noticed I’m looking at in-memory databases (IMDB) these days… Here are some quick architectural observations on … More

Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Databases, EDW, Exalytics, Greenplum, HANA, IMDB, In-memory database, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, Shared nothing architecture, SQL, TimesTen, VMware

Chaos, Cloud Computing, and the Data Warehouse

  David Linthicum suggests here that Shadow IT is not all a bad thing. He references a PricewaterhouseCoopers study that … More

Analytics, Cloud computing, Data Warehouse, Data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database management system, HANA, IMDB, Netezza, Oracle Exadata, Shared nothing architecture, Teradata, TimesTen

HANA and ABAP

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

ABAP, Big Data, Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Database, HANA, Oracle, SAP, SAP AG, Shared nothing architecture, SQL

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