CPUs and HW for HANA, BLU, Hekaton, and Oracle 12c

This short post is intended to provide a quick warning regarding in-memory columnar and cpu requirements… with a longer post … More

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

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

I wondered here how IBM would position DB2 with BLU versus Netezza. Please have a look before you go on… … More

The current release of HANA requires that all of the data required to satisfy a query be in-memory to run … More

In my last post here I suggested that there were three levels of maturity around column orientation and described the … More

There are three forms of columnar-orientation currently deployed by database systems today. Each builds upon the next. The simplest form … More

I would like to recommend to you John Appleby’s post here on the HANA blog site. While the title suggests the … More

I suggested here that Teradata shipped the EDW 6700 series without waiting for Ivy Bridge because they could not use … More

I renamed this so that Teradata folks would not get here so often… its not really about Intelligent Memory… just … More