My friend and a major contributor to the art of database architecture, Chuck McDevitt, died last week. Five years ago Chuck was diagnosed with an advanced cancer and given six months to live. He fought and endured and worked for most of those five years, teaching us all a little about how we might live…
Cloudera and Teradata have jointly published a nice paper here that presents an interesting perspective of how Hadoop and an EDW play together. Simply put, Hadoop becomes the staging area for “raw data streams” while the EDW stores data from “operational systems”. Hadoop then analyzes the raw data and shares the results with the EDW. Two…
I want to soften my criticism of Greenplum‘s announcement of HAWQ a little. This post by Merv Adrian convinced me that part of by blog here looked at the issue of whether HAWQ is Hadoop too simply. I could outline a long chain of logic that shows the difficulty in making a rule for what…
My contacts from Strata read my post here and provided me with the following information: The performance numbers quoted for Greenplum HAWQ versus HIVE and Impala used Greenplum tables implemented over HDFS. In other words, this data is unreadable from outside of the Greenplum database… unreadable by any other program in the Hadoop eco-system… a…
If I were the Register I would have titled this: Raging Stuffed Elephant To Devour Two Warehouse Vendors… I love the Register… if you do not read it have a look… This is a post is about the market implications of architecture… Let us assume that Hadoop matures and finds a permanent place in the…
This post has been thrown at me a couple of times now… so I’ll now take the time to go through it… and try to address the junk. It starts by suggesting that “the Germans” have started a war… but the next sentence points out that the author tossed grenades at HANA two months before…
As you may have noticed I’m looking at in-memory databases (IMDB) these days… Here are some quick architectural observations on VMWare‘s SQLFire, Oracle’s Exalytics and TimesTen offerings, and SAP HANA. It is worth noting up front that I am looking to see how these products might be used to build a generalized data mart or…
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