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At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

By Merv Adrian on November 10, 2010

I hope I can be forgiven the cute headline. It speaks to a series of events that were heard in Oracle Open World messaging, where the word “open” appeared much less frequently than in years past. Oracle is fortifying its borders, opening new fronts in its market battles, and slowly closing itself off from some […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Cloudera, CouchDB, Goldengate, hadoop, Hive, hp, Industry Trends, Ingres, InnoDB, Java, MyISAM, mySQL, NoSQL, oracle, PostgreSQL, Red Hat, sap, Vectorwise, windows | 1 Response

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

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

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

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

Making Enterprise Applications Social: Looking at the Intranet and OpenSocial

Making Enterprise Applications Social: Looking at the Intranet and OpenSocial

By Dion Hinchcliffe on October 23, 2010

Just in case you’ve been spending time on a deserted island, you might not know that the Web these days has been moving rapidly towards a profoundly more social and interconnected version of itself. It was just over a year…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, Information technology, intranets, Jive, OpenSocial, social business, social computing, social software, Software design, Web 2.0 | 1 Response

Database Benchmarks – The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Database Benchmarks – The Gift That Keeps on Giving

By Merv Adrian on October 8, 2010

Yes, I know – not everyone believes database benchmarks are useful. My position is that there is value in benchmarks’ role in helping engineers wring out bottlenecks, bugs and performance impediments in their products. In a conversation I recently had with Berni Schiefer, Distinguished Engineer and manager of the DB2 UDB Performance and Advanced Technology […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Exadata, flash, ibm, Industry Trends, microsoft, oracle, pureScale, sap, SQL Server, TPC, TPC-H

IBM Acquires Netezza – ADBMS Consolidation Heats Up

IBM Acquires Netezza – ADBMS Consolidation Heats Up

By Merv Adrian on September 20, 2010

IBM’s bid to acquire Netezza makes it official; the insurgents are at the gates. A pioneering and leading ADBMS player, Netezza is in play for approximately $1.7 billion or 6 times earnings. When it entered the market in 2001, it catalyzed an economic and architectural shift with an appliance form factor at a dramatically different […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, BI, business intelligence, Business Objects, Cloudera, cognos, Data mining, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database, DatAllegro, DBMS, FPGA, GNU, hadoop, hp, ibm, IBM POWER, Industry Trends, Kalido, Kona, mainframe, mapreduce, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, NEC, Netezza, node, oracle, R, SAS, Skimmer, smart analytics system, spatial analysis, spss, statistical analysis, storage engine, Teradata, Tibco, TwinFin, UDF

Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

By Merv Adrian on September 18, 2010

Aster Data has announced its new version, nCluster 4.6, which now includes a column data store, staking a claim as the first ADBMS to combine SQL and MapReduce on a hybrid row and column MPP system. While its R&D has hitherto been focused on enabling advanced in-database analytic processing in its flagship “Data-Analytics Server, ” […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster, column stores, data compression, data modeling, fault tolerance, hybrid multistores, indexing, Industry Trends, mapreduce, MPP, nCluster, partitioning, SQL, statistical analysis, time series, UDF

Attunity Scores a Win With RMS CDC Support

Attunity Scores a Win With RMS CDC Support

By Merv Adrian on September 14, 2010

Today’s email brought a reminder of an old, valued data format: RMS. When I posted about Attunity earlier this year, I noted the value of its replication and changed data capture (CDC) technology as the major software infrastructure vendors continue to look at ways to consolidate the management of their customer’s data assets. Attunity is […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Alpha, Attunity, CDC, data integration, hp, ibm, Industry Trends, Information Builders, Integrity, iWay, legacy, microsoft, OpenVMS, oracle, RMS, sap, Sybase

Kalido “Cascades” Continue Cadence on Designed DW Development

Kalido “Cascades” Continue Cadence on Designed DW Development

By Merv Adrian on September 13, 2010

Kalido‘s ongoing evangelization of automation for governed, designed data warehouses has delivered fine results for the small, Massachusetts-based firm. In a recent conversation, the team shared recent results: a profitable fiscal year, with a Q4 that was up 35% and momentum that carried into the traditionally slow Q1 with 25% year over year growth. Since […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged business intelligence, data governance, data modeling, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, DW, Industry Trends, Kalido, mdm, Netezza, QlikView, Teradata

Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.

Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.

By Merv Adrian on August 24, 2010

I’ve posted twice about TDWI’s San Diego event, and I still haven’t exhausted the thoughts I wanted to share. That’s a measure of just how important and successful I think the show was. Three things jumped out at me: The audience is back, and it’s ready to spend. The event was buzzing; I was told […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Agile, Agile BI, Aster, BI, business intelligence, Eclipse, IDE, Industry Trends, mapreduce, TDWI, Wherescape RED

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