There is a persistent myth, like a persistent cough, that claims that in-memory databases lose data when a hardware failure … More
Tag: TimesTen
SQLFire, Exalytics, TimesTen, and HANA… a quick comparison
As you may have noticed I’m looking at in-memory databases (IMDB) these days… Here are some quick architectural observations on … More
Chaos, Cloud Computing, and the Data Warehouse
David Linthicum suggests here that Shadow IT is not all a bad thing. He references a PricewaterhouseCoopers study that … More
Numbers Everyone Should Know
Some of you have seen me build simple models to do a reality-check on architecture (see here, for example). Here … More
Real-time Analytics and BI: Part 1 – Singing for my Dinner
Several months ago I was invited to a dinner attached to a data science summit… with the price being that … More
Cloud Computing and Data Warehousing: Part 4 – IMDB Data Warehouse in a Cloud
In the previous blogs on this topic (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) I suggested that: Shared-nothing is required for … More
More on Exalytics Capacity…
I found myself wondering where did the rule-of-thumb for Exalytics that suggests that TimesTen can use 800GB of a 1TB … More
