I wondered here how IBM would position DB2 with BLU versus Netezza. Please have a look before you go on… and let me admit here and now that when I wrote this I chickened out. As I sat down this time I became convinced that I should predict the end of Netezza. Why? In the…
In many of my posts I refer to the issues associated with building “extra” data structures to meet performance goals (see one of my first posts ever here). These extra structures are always a trade-off… slowing the performance of one function in order to speed up another. I thought that it might be helpful to be…
Summary Vertica is the product I saw the most. In fact before they were acquired they were beginning to pop up a lot. The product is innovative in several dimensions. It is wholly column-oriented with several advanced columnar optimizations. Vertica has an advanced data loading strategy that quickly commits data and then creates the column…
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