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Gartner DWH and my Mystical Quarter Circle Survey

It’s really hard to use something like a magic quadrant to pick a technology for your firm. For example, if you were putting in a retail POS system and wanted to have all transactions feed a real-time DWH, I “might”

Adhoc, MPP, and IN-MEMORY BI

By vallabh on June 21st, 2010 at 8:29 am Hello Charlie, Thanks for such a quick response. It is definitely very helpful information. I am trying to fit in Oracle Exadata when compared to the other tools. Could you also tell me whatis a better way to handle ad-hoc analytics.Use a MPP in place of [...]

Microstrategy, Spotfire and Tableau?

Q) I am also looking for comparison of Microstrategy, Spotfire and Tableau…. Please let me know on what parameters can I compare the tools. I am looking for a technology that offers ad-hoc analytics.

Site Status

Hi Folks, i its been awhile since my last blog posting. I am making a new commitment to get some of my experiences with varying technologies in the MPP space posted. If you read my blogs, you can see that I have a passion for parallel processing and have had some pretty interesting opportunities to [...]

Need a Job?

Hi Folks, The Job search engine is now on-line. The jobs posted on this site are all related to technology. I know that “Technology” is a broad term, but I had to prime the pump with something. My hope is that overtime, firms looking for experts in the Various MPP technologies will post here. Take [...]

The Word on the Street (Teradata, Netezza, Vertica, ParAccel, Greenplum)

I started investigating Google Insight to see what the search volumes are with regard to a few of the competing database technologies. My interest is primarily in Teradata, Netezza, Vertica, ParAccel, and Greenplum. Since text mining

The V-Stick is Coming

What do you get when you combine A bootable USB Stick A full blown Linux OS with GUI Evaluation Version of the Vertica Analytics database Fully installed and configured Apache/Tomcat Web Server LogiXML Dashboard Reporting Sample Data and Dashboards Introducing the V-Stick Powered by Vertica and LogiXML We are currently putting the final touches on [...]