Tag: Exadata
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Exawars
There are some funny little wars being fought in the blogosphere between Teradata and Netezza attacking Oracle Exadata. Instead of taking side, let me just link to what’s been going on so far. The Teradata whitepaper that got the ball rolling: Exadata – the Sequel. Exadata V2 is Still Oracle DB Professor Daniel Abadi is…
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Oracle OpenWorld 2010
Oracle OpenWorld 2010 is casting its shadows because it’s merely two weeks in the future now. I again didn’t manage to get sent… but the lucky few 😉 who will be there, here’s some advice: from the DWH guys on getting organized, from the OEM guys on the Top 11 Things to do, and you…
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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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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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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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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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