Tag: Vertica
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HP yokes Autonomy, Vertica together for big data push
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Teradata acquiring Aster Data
This just came in: Teradata acquiring Aster Data. Database consolidation wars is full speed ahead, last month, it was HP acquiring Vertica, last year IBM bought Netezza, and EMC bought Greenplum. So within six months, the four biggest and most promising MPP DB vendors have found a new owner.
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Analytics Pissing Contest
Aster Data Founder Mayank Bawa is engaging in an analytics pissing contest with Vertica in Sessionize with Style? …Or How a column-only, SQL-only database and lack of MapReduce, will cramp your style!, all that about a mini-series of Vertica blogs, where a Vertica engineer was pointing out perceived flaws of Aster and Teradata.… 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
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TDWI Summary
Merv Adrian has the authoritative write-up on the TDWI Conference last week in More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents, but Netezza also talks about it in Thinking about Right-Time Analytics in the Big Data Era at TDWI.… Continued