Category: Technology
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Greenplum Database Single-Node Edition
Let’s have a look at Greenplum Database Single-Node Edition. This new, free version of Greenplum Database gives data analysts access to Greenplum’s high-performance database for large-scale analytical projects outside the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The Single-Node Edition is a state-of-the-art parallel analytic database It’s free for up to 2 CPU sockets (unlimited cores), and supposedly…
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Sybase IQ 15.2 New Features
Phil Bowermaster is presenting the new features of Sybase 15.2 in Smarter Answers Now with Sybase IQ 15.2. Most prominent features are Text Search and Analysis, Query Federation and Web-Enabled Analytics, while the also mentioned Real-Time Loading really is a feature of Replication Server 15.5, and is also available when used against earlier versions of…
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Oracle Exadata: A Data Management Tipping Point
Oracle commissioned Merv Adrian to write about Exadata. Here’s his blog and the report: Oracle Exadata: A Data Management Tipping Point. Early customer results indicate that Oracle Exadata V2 is delivering on the promise of those new capabilities. The action item for IT, then, is to target corporate applications with the biggest potential for speed-based…
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RainStor 4 addresses Big Data
RainStor (formerly known as Clearpace) released version 4 of its Data Archival product, announcing it as RainStor 4 Addresses ‘Big Data’ Retention and Retrieval for Compliance and Data Governance across Industry Sectors. We looked at Clearpace 2.5 years back and they didn’t fare too bad, compared to the competition. Interest may rise again, as our…
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Teradata addressing multi-temperature issues
Following up on yesterday’s conversation about SSD vs. RAM speeds, I was able to dig out an interesting post on how Teradata’s CTO Todd Walter sees new developments in the storage space revolutionize the DWH space: Teradata Terrorizes the Data Warehouse. The interesting twist is that Teradata will transparently rebalance hot and cold data over…
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DIY Exadata Performance
Go vote for Kevin Closson‘s Oracle Open World session proposal Do-It-Yourself Exadata-level Performance? on Oracle Mix. On a related note, this is exactly what we’re doing in our lab, throwing together the best of all technologies, and testing how it stands up against Exadata. Currently this includes a brand new IBM X5 server and a…
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Bigger, Better, Faster with Sybase 15.5 IMDB
Peter Dobler is explaining the new In Memory DB Sybase started shipping with ASE 15.5 in Sybase ASE 15.5 — The Need for Speed. Recommended reading even for non-Sybase folks, with more articles even in Peter’s Database Technology Trends blog. Found it via Rob’s Sybase Blog.
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Considerations for Hadoop and BI
Cloudera are looking at Considerations for Hadoop and BI in a little series of two articles (2nd part). BI tools traditionally were designed for small volumes of structured data where Hadoop generally stores data in complex formats at scale and processes data on read using MapReduce, so that can be quite a problem, and it’s…
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VoltDB – DIY In-Memory OLTP
Merv Adrian writes about VoltDB, who recently announced more about what they’re doing, in VoltDB – DIY OLTP. Open Source. Win. VoltDB runs completely in memory, scales on multiple nodes, but only supports a limited set of ANSI SQL. Any missing functions can be added through a fast Java API, hence DIY. They’re lead by…
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Oracle Buys Secerno
Yesterday Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Secerno, the UK-based Database Activity Monitoring firm. Oracle posted a FAQ on the acquisition with some generic data points. Securosis have some good initial analysis on the deal. The product also supports MS SQL Server and Sybase ASE.
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