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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 [...]

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

Vertica on a Stick

Can you believe it? A bootable 16 Gb thumb-drive with Linux, GUI, Vertica AND room for data!? Yes, I admit it. I am a geek. But how cool is this. Imagine developing, prototyping, and presenting a data warehouse without procuring a server, installing Linux, or commandeering your hard drive. Everything you need is on a [...]

Can Netezza Search for Aliens?

  While I am on the innovation “rant” it reminds me of a few discussions I had with some of the brass at Netezza. I have been fortunate to have been invited to the Netezza campus a few times and we had a few blue-sky sessions. (This was before they got their new digs and their IPO.) [...]

Netezza Paved the Way

Are we seeing a paradigm shift today as we saw when Netezza first launched their MPP appliance? Probably, but I think the road for Netezza is still pretty golden.

Database in the Clouds?

I am struggleing with this one. For VLDB’s, I can’t say I subscribe to the cloud databases like EC2, SimpleDB, etc.. I love the idea

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