Tag: Flash
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Scaling Out without Partitioning
Todd Hoff mentions Hyder – Scaling Out without Partitioning. Hyder is a research database at Microsoft, in which the database is the log, no partitioning is required, and the database is multi-versioned. Basically a shared Flash device for the logs:
For transaction execution, each server has a cache of the last committed state.… Continued
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Oracle Exalogic, Linux Changes
As expected, Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s new Middleware appliance at OpenWorld yesterday – Oracle Exalogic features 30 servers, Infinibad, Flash storage. More about the announcement in eWeeks’s Oracle’s Ellison Introduces Exalogic: New Cloud-in-a-Box System.… Continued
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Vertica’s FlexStore for Flash
Vertica used last week’s TDWI Conference to announce its FlexStore for Flash in Vertica & Flash: Runaway Performance at a Low Price. Good stuff, more vendors should provide that flexibility around different data tiers. Although I’m not sure we need all that (flexibility comes with complexity, and complexity it bad, but I guess you knew that already).… Continued