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No Empathy for DevOps
Ugh. I loved the concept of DevOps and talked it up in the companies I was associated with. Within a database DevOps had a long history as both database products, database ETL facilities, and end-user...
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How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 1 – Oracle Exadata
Database vendors don’t usually admit to shortcomings… they protest that they have no shortcomings until the market suggests otherwise… then they make some sort of change that signals an admission. This...
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Thinking About the Pivotal Announcements…
Yesterday I provided a model for how business sees open source as a means to be profitable (here). This is the game Pivotal seems to be playing with their release of Hadoop, Gemfire, HAWQ, and...
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How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 2 – Teradata...
This is the second post (see Part 1 here) on how vendors adjust their architecture without admitting that the previous architecture was flawed. This time we’ll consider Teradata and in-memory…. When...
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A Trend in Systems Architecture
I composed the video below on a contract for Intel… but they were kind enough to let me tell the story with only a lite promotional touch. I think that you will find the story interesting as it...
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How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 3 – EDW on IBM z/OS
This is the 3rd and final example of a vendor admitting, without admitting, to an architectural limitation. The first two parts on Exadata and Teradata are here and here. Teradata started to get real...
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Vendor Spin: What is not Metadata… What is not open…
I recently listened to a pitch by a vendor that was well spun. Let’s use this post to consider some spin around what is not metadata and what is a proprietary interface. The vendor described how they...
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A New Way of Thinking About EDW Federation
There is a new way to think about data warehouse architecture. The Gartner Group calls it a logical data warehouse and it uses database federation to dynamically integrate a universe of data...
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Hadoop and Company Financial Performance
I have posted several times about the impact of the Hadoop eco-system on a several companies (here, here, here, for example). The topic cam up in a tweet thread a few weeks back… which prompts this...
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A Short DW DBMS Market History: HANA, Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata, &...
Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years ago Netezza shook up the DW DBMS market with a parallel database machine that could...
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