Category: Technology
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Synthesis of Specialized and General Purpose
Closing the specialization vs. general purpose mini-series (part 1, part 2) is Keith Laker from Oracle’s Data Warehouse Insider blog in The Next Evolutionary Step – Analytical Connectivity. And he’s arguing that the shift towards specialization is already over, and appliances will be dead within 2-3 years. This evolution from needing a specialized appliance to…
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The Shift Towards Specialized Hardware and Software
Following up on yesterday’s post we have Stephen O’Grady from RedMonk looking at specialization vs. general purpose from a general industry perspective: A Swing of the Pendulum: The Shift Towards Specialized Hardware and Software. Excellent read: What might be different this time around is that on a macro basis, the market is showing an increased…
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Simplification Through Specialization
Ramon Chen’s post Simplification Through Specialization (later repeated on the Rainstor blog) rang quite a bell with me, also on the personal level. But here’s why specialization is better for some: If you were going to spend big bucks, you’d expect results and performance to match your use cases and requirements. With Big Data upon…
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End of Oracle 10gR2 Premier Support
Ronny Egner’s post reminded me that when you come back to work next week, Oracle 10gR2 will be in Extended Support. Luckily for all of us (who can say they have no more 10g databases?), Oracle doesn’t charge their customers for the first year of Extended Support on Oracle 10gR2, so you’ll have another year…
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Sybase IQ 15.2 New Features, Part Deux
I’ve been wanting to follow up on this for a while, so without further ado, here are some more Sybase IQ 15.2 New Features.
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The End of an Architectural Era
Chen Shapira takes a look at Mike Stonebraker’s 2007 paper The End of an Architectural Era about HStore, his modern implementation of an OLTP database system. Her article It’s the End of the World As We Know It (NoSQL Edition) is a good write-up and analysis for those (such as me) who don’t have time…
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Keep an RDBMS in Your Back Pocket
Now, depending on your viewpoint, that title could just as well read Keep a Hadoop Cluster in Your Back Pocket. So we’re talking about when it makes sense to combine an old fashioned SQL RDBMS with a fancy and modern NoSQL system from both angles. In defence of SQL (found via myNoSQL) is voting to…
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Linux for Oracle Tuning Checklist
A quick post on a Linux for Oracle Tuning Checklist I found in Ronny Egner’s blog. If you’re doing Oracle on Linux, this is a must read (best while sitting at a Linux terminal), else just ignore this post.
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Some Re-Engineering may be Required
Greg Rahn’s post about The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Set Processing vs Row Processing is so good, everybody considering a migration from a standard RDBMS to a VLDB platform (such as Exadata, as in Greg’s example) should be forced to read it. To paraphrase Greg: the performance improvements of the new…
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What is Analytics?
Sybase’s Phil Bowermaster is trying to shed some light on the question of What is Analytics? The vital distinction is this: advanced analytics involves more than just slicing and dicing of the data. […] Ultimately, it’s this reliance on models that sets advanced analytics apart from other types of BI analysis. When a business takes…
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