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Exalytics vs. HANA: What are they thinking?
I’ve been trying to sort through the noise around Exalytics and see if there are any conclusions to be drawn from the architecture. But this post is more about the noise. The vast majority of the...
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Co-processing and Exadata
In my first blog (here) I discussed the implications of using co-processors to offload CPU. The point was that with multi-core processors it made more sense to add generalized processing hardware that...
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A Big Data Sound Bite…
Here is a sound bite on Big Data I composed for another source… Big Data is relative. For some firms Big Data will be measured in petabytes and for other in hundreds of gigabytes. The point is that...
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NoCOUG Referral
I would like to point you to two articles in the latest Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) Journal here. The first is an interview of Kevin Closson here. The interview is long and will...
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The Greenplum ORCA Optimizer
In January Greenplum rolled out a new query optimizer. This is very cool and very advanced stuff. Query optimization is a search problem… in a perfect world you would search through the space of all...
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Hadoop and ETL
My last post (here) blathered about the effect that Hadoop must have on database vendor profits. An associate wrote me with the reminder that Hadoop is also impacting revenues and profits of ETL...
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