Archive for MPP

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.

…and this database is Just Right

There is no theoretical size limit on databases based on MPP architectures. (Massively parallel processing). The more nodes, SPUS, blades, or pizza boxes you have in your cluster, the more capacity your database has and the faster it will perform. With that said, I am pretty confident that Teradata, Netezza and Vertica can scale to the Petabyte size. There seems to be no real inhibiting factor that I know of

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