Daniel Abadi of Yale (and, for me, of Hadoop World fame) has a great article about a Teradata white paper focusing on Oracle’s Exadata: I recently came across a whitepaper from Teradata, written by a senior consultant for Teradata, Richard Burns. This is a very well written piece, and has one of the best overviews [...]
As some of you know, I’ve been working on a NoSQL book for the last few months. It’s been coming along pretty well — about 8 chapters written or so — and I have been in conversations with two different publishers, one of which was almost at the signing phase about a month ago or [...]
SAP is offering 5 and a quarter billion for Sybase. Besides saving a troubled RDBMS manufacturer, it’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out for SAP sales. One of SAP’s selling points over the years has been their ability to reside in varying database platforms; sure, they had their own database, but [...]
In my opinion, the NoSQL movement is in that techie-only phase. If you want to think of it hype cycle terms, NoSQL is pretty much all the way over on the left, although not for the usual reasons (as the some of the facets of the underlying technology is quite old). A lot of techies [...]
Another article on deduplication has come out and I still have the same concerns as I always have. Deduplication occurs by analyzing the data, hashing it into a mathematical tag and then normalizing the tags to save storage. And that’s great — in theory. Until you add in the hash collisions (the MD5 one, the [...]
After one day at NoSQL East, I believe I can do a quick compare & contrast with OpenWorld. Cost To Go $600 $2500 Location Atlanta GA San Francisco CA Number of Attendees 125 40,000 Laptop % in use during talks ~95% ~10% Typical dress T-shirt & jeans Business Casual/Suits & no ties General Content Much [...]
Today at Oracle’s OpenWorld, Scott McNealy mentioned the Sun F5100 Flash Array, which is a RAID comprised of flash devices rather than magnetic media. I had this idea a few years ago, but both the COTS flash devices were insufficiently robust and I didn’t have any funding. But Sun seems to have to put things [...]
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