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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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