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The Fog is Getting Thicker…

I renamed this so that Teradata folks would not get here so often… its not really about Intelligent Memory… just prompted by it. The post on Intelligent Memory is here. – Rob Two quick comments on Teradata’s recent announcement of Intelligent Memory. First… very very cool. More on this to come. Next… life is going […] Continue reading

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How Good Is Teradata’s Intelligent Memory?

Jason asked a great question in the comment section here… he asked… does Teradata’s Intelligent Memory erode HANA’s value proposition?  Let me answer here in a more general way that is applicable to the general database space… Every time a vendor puts more silicon between the CPU and the disk they will improve their performance […] Continue reading

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A Teradata Prediction Comes True… and Wondering About Netezza…

If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here that Teradata would go away from ByNet… and lo and behold they did (see here). In the same post I predicted that Netezza would go away from FPGAs. This has not come to pass. But I wonder if it might… or if there is a [...] Continue reading

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A Teradata Prediction Comes True… and Wondering About Netezza…

If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here that Teradata would go away from ByNet… and lo and behold they did (see here). In the same post I predicted that Netezza would go away from FPGAs. This has not come to pass. But I wonder if it might… or if there is a [...] Continue reading

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A Teradata Prediction Comes True… and Wondering About Netezza…

If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here that Teradata would go away from ByNet… and lo and behold they did (see here). In the same post I predicted that Netezza would go away from FPGAs. This has not come to pass. But I wonder if it might… or if there is a […] Continue reading

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The Five Minute Rule and Teradata Memory Utilization

I have mentioned now and again that Teradata‘s architecture which writes intermediate results to spool violates the Five Minute Rule may be a poor design choice. Let me make this case more clearly. The Five Minute Rule was developed by Gray and Putzolu to determine where the trade-off is between keeping data in-memory and writing [...] Continue reading

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Aster Data for a price…

If Greenplum HAWQ does not look promising (see my previous posts on HAWQ here and here) what are the prospects for Teradata Aster Data… which aspires to both replace and/or co-exist with Hadoop for a fee? Teradata+Hadoop maybe… but Teradata+Aster+Hadoop seems like one layer too many… as does Aster+Hadoop. (OK, I removed the bad “HAWQing” pun in the [...] Continue reading

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My 2 Cents: Greenplum 1Q2013

Since my blogs tend to be in response to some stimulus they may not reflect a holistic view on any particular product. The “My 2 Cents” series will try to provide a broader view… Please consider this as you read on… Summary From a technical perspective, Greenplum is my favorite data warehouse database. Built on [...] Continue reading

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My 2 Cents: Netezza 1Q2013

Since my blogs tend to be in response to some stimulus they may not reflect a holistic view on any particular product. The “My 2 Cents” series will try to provide a broader view… Please consider this as you read on… Summary Netezza put a new spin on data warehousing… they made it easy. The Netezza software [...] Continue reading

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Will Hadoop Eat Greenplum and Netezza?

If I were the Register I would have titled this: Raging Stuffed Elephant To Devour Two Warehouse Vendors… I love the Register… if you do not read it have a look… This is a post is about the market implications of architecture… Let us assume that Hadoop matures and finds a permanent place in the [...] Continue reading

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