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 Short DW DBMS Market History: HANA, Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata, & Greenplum

Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … More

I have posted several times about the impact of the Hadoop eco-system on a several companies (here, here, here, for … More

This is the second post (see Part 1 here) on how vendors adjust their architecture without admitting that the previous … More

For several years now I have been suggesting that Hadoop will squeeze the big data RDBMSs: Teradata, Exadata, Greenplum, and … More

I’m working on a new idea… it may or may not pan out… but here are some concepts for your consideration… … More

Now for SQL Server… continuing the thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7) I have … More

Continuing this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) I have suggested that we could … More

In this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) I have suggested that we could evaluate integration … More

I would like to point out a very important section in the paper on Hekaton on the Microsoft Research site … More