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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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