By Merv Adrian on November 8, 2010
Calpont, rapidly emerging as yet another contender in the ADBMS sweepstakes, has announced version 2.0 of InfiniDB, its columnar MPP offering over shared storage. The value proposition hits now-familiar themes: high-performance query, fast data loading, data compression, and parallelized user defined functions (UDFs), all of which are becoming key checkoff capabilities. InfiniDB also hits hard […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, BBBT, Calpont, column stores, columnar, community edition, correlated subquery, data compression, data load, DDL, distributed query, EMC, failover, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, InfiniDB, mapreduce, microsoft, MPP, mySQL, OEM, Open source, oracle, partitioning, Percona, pricing, sap, shared nothing, shared storage, SQL, storage engine, Sybase, Teradata, UDF
By Merv Adrian on November 4, 2010
The Data Computing Appliance, first deliverable from EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, was announced last month, only 75 days after the acquisition closed, and it doesn’t lack for ambition. Pat Gelsinger, EMC CEO, pointed to the high level opportunity: unlocking the “hidden value” of enormous and growing data assets every company is increasingly holding, and often […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster Data, backup, Cisco, data load, Data replication, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, DBMS, deduplication, Dell, EMC, Exadata, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, intel, MPP, multicore, oracle, ParAccel, rack, RDBMS, RecoverPoint, recovery, SAN, server, Storage, Sybase IQ, terabyte, Teradata, Vblock, VCE, Vertica
By James Governor on July 7, 2010
I wrote recently about VMware’s emerging Data Management play after the announcement the firm was hiring Redis lead developer Salvatore Sanfillipo. While [CEO Paul] Maritz may say VMware isn’t getting into the database business, he means not the relational database market. The fact is application development has been dominated by relational- Oracle on distributed, IBM […]
Posted in Business | Tagged EMC, Greenplum, hadoop, ibm, mapreduce, Relational database, VMware
By Merv Adrian on July 6, 2010
EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]
Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, AIX, Aster, blades, business intelligence, Cloud, core, CPU, data integration, data load, Data Warehousing, Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Documentum, EMC, ETL, Exadata, Exasol, Greenplum, Hardware platforms, hp, ibm, indexing, Industry Trends, Java, Kickfire, Linux, mdm, microsoft, MPP, multicore, Netezza, NoSQL, NUMA, Open source, oracle, PADB, ParAccel, Postgres, PostgreSQL, rack, RDBMS, sap, Solaris, Sun, Sybase, Teradata, TPC, TPC-H, unisys, Vendor image and communications, Virtual Machine, VM, VMware, vSphere, windows |
By R "Ray" Wang on June 28, 2010
BI Solutions Must Address The Information Management Matrix A confluence of changing business requirements and on-going vendor consolidation leads many organizations to rethink their business intelligence (BI) strategies. Many buyers face decisions to move beyond departmental solutions or to stay with an integrated apps based BI solution. Meanwhile, some buyers must decide whether or not […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Actuate, analytics, approaches and styles, apps strate, Apps Strategy, Aster Data, BI, BIRST, business intelligence, Capscan, data integration, data quality, Data warehouse, DataFlux, DataFlux (A SaaS Company), Datanomic, deployment options, DI, DW, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Epicor, Experian QAS, Greenplum, HP Neoview, ibm, IBM (including Initiate), Informatica, Informatica (previously Siperian), Information Builders, information management, information management matrix, initiate systems, Inquera, Kalido, Lawson, master data management, mdm, Melissa Data, Microsoft (DATAllegr0), MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, MIcroStrategy, myDials, Netezza, next gen apps, next gen cio, next gen enterprise, Next generation apps, NextGen, Omikron, oracle, ParAccel, Pitney Bowes, pivotlink, Proferi, QlikTech, reporting, reporting paradigms, Research Report, SAP BusinessObjects (FirstLogic), SAP Sybase IQ, Satori, semi-structured data, Siperian, social enterprise apps, structured data, Talend, Terradata, Trillium, Uniserv, unstructured data, Vertica, visualization |