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Chuck McDevitt: An Obituary

My friend and a major contributor to the art of database architecture, Chuck McDevitt, died last week. Five years ago … More

Aster Data, Aster Data Systems, IBM, Netezza, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, SQL, Teradata

Hadoop and the EDW

Cloudera and Teradata have jointly published a nice paper here that presents an interesting perspective of how Hadoop and an EDW … More

Apache Hadoop, Big Data, Cloudera, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, EDW, Greenplum, Hadoop, Paper, SQL, squeeze play, Teradata

HAWQ and Hadoop and Open Source and a Wacky Idea

I want to soften my criticism of Greenplum‘s announcement of HAWQ a little. This post by Merv Adrian convinced me … More

Apache Hadoop, Greenplum, Greenplum Database, Hadoop, HAWQ, HDFS, Open source, SQL

HAWQ Performance Marketing

My contacts from Strata read my post here and provided me with the following information: The performance numbers quoted for … More

Apache Hadoop, Greenplum, Greenplum Database, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Impala, SQL

Will Hadoop Eat Greenplum and Netezza?

If I were the Register I would have titled this: Raging Stuffed Elephant To Devour Two Warehouse Vendors… I love … More

Analytics, Apache Hadoop, Big Data, Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, Databases, EDW, Greenplum, Greenplum Database, Hadoop, HANA, IMDB, Netezza, SQL

A Rebuttal…

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

HANA, Intel, Microsoft, OLTP, Online transaction processing, SAP AG, SQL, SQL Server

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

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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