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…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

Syncsort SI Certification

Syncsort now has a System Integrator Certification available for DMExpress. I was fortunate enough to have been invited to the training and just received my certification. I must say that I am thoroughly impressedwith how far the DMExpress product has matured since the Syncsort Case Study I published a few years ago.

Syncsort World Record!

Syncsort and Vertica Shatter Database ETL World Record Using HP BladeSystem c-Class Smash cost & performance barriers by extracting, transforming and loading 5.4 terabytes on HP BladeSystem c-Class in less than one hour

Benefits of Warehouse Virtualization

The flexibility is incredible. Vertica has created a virtual appliance that you can download and test drive. If you don’t have a virtualized environment, you will need to download VMWare’s free VMware Player to run it on your desktop.

New Era of Virtualized Data Warehousing?

Vertica ushers in new era of data warehouse savings, simplicity and scalability through virtualization. Vertica Analytic Database running on VMware helps datacenters consolidate “tera-mart” and data warehouse deployments in virtualized “private cloud” environments.

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