This short post is intended to provide a quick warning regarding in-memory columnar and cpu requirements… with a longer post … More
Tag: Teradata
The Squeeze Hits Teradata
Teradata stock is falling hard due to guidance here that they may miss revenue targets. Analysts are downgrading the stock… … More
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
DB2 BLU vs. Netezza… and the Winner is…
I wondered here how IBM would position DB2 with BLU versus Netezza. Please have a look before you go on… … More
HANA Memory Utilization
The current release of HANA requires that all of the data required to satisfy a query be in-memory to run … More
Who is How Columnar? Exadata, Teradata, and HANA – Part 2: Column Processing
In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More
Who is How Columnar? Exadata, Teradata, and HANA – Part 1: Column Compression
There are three forms of columnar-orientation currently deployed by database systems today. Each builds upon the next. The simplest form … More
Database Computing is Supercomputing… Some external reading: May 2013
I would like to recommend to you John Appleby’s post here on the HANA blog site. While the title suggests the … More
Teradata CPU Planning
I suggested here that Teradata shipped the EDW 6700 series without waiting for Ivy Bridge because they could not use … More
The Fog is Getting Thicker…
I renamed this so that Teradata folks would not get here so often… its not really about Intelligent Memory… just … More