The Big Data Bang
There is still an open question over whether, after the Big Bang, there is enough mass in the Universe to slow the expansion and cause the universe to contract. While the Big Data Bang continues to...
View ArticleBig Data is Important… the Phrase “Big Data” Has Become Meaningless
This week an “industry leader” stood in front of a large IT conference and stated that “big data” is any data volume or data complexity that puts you out of your comfort zone. This is not helpful. It...
View ArticleThe Future of Hadoop and of Big Data DBMSs
About four years ago Michael McIntire and I were pondering the rise of Hadoop. This blog will share bits of that conversation, provide an update based on the state of Hadoop today, and suggest a future...
View ArticleMore on The Future of Hadoop and of Big Data DBMSs
First, you should look at Google’s Spanner paper here… this is the next-gen from Google and once it is embraced by the open source community it will put even more pressure on the big data DBMSs. Also...
View Article“Big Data is Essentially All Data”– B. Devlin
I would like to recommend you to Barry Devlin’s post here titled “Big Data is Dead… Long Live All Data”. The post ends with the paragraph: “All this says to me that big data as a technological category...
View ArticleA Look Back at 2012
There seems to be a sort of odd tradition for bloggers to look back at the past year as the New Year starts to unfold. Here is my review of my posts and some presents … Top Post Far and away the most...
View ArticleWill Hadoop Eat Greenplum and Netezza?
If I were the Register I would have titled this: Raging Stuffed Elephant To Devour Two Warehouse Vendors… I love the Register… if you do not read it have a look… This is a post is about the market...
View ArticleHAWQ and Pivotal HD – Is it Hadoop?
First, from a technical standpoint I like the Greenplum-on-HDFS HAWQ offering. It looks like the GP Team replaced XFS with HDFS and added some native support for several HDFS file types. I will say...
View ArticleAster Data for a price…
If Greenplum HAWQ does not look promising (see my previous posts on HAWQ here and here) what are the prospects for Teradata Aster Data… which aspires to both replace and/or co-exist with Hadoop for a...
View ArticleHadoop and the EDW
Cloudera and Teradata have jointly published a nice paper here that presents an interesting perspective of how Hadoop and an EDW play together. Simply put, Hadoop becomes the staging area for “raw data...
View ArticleThe Big Data Devil
I just finished a draft for next week on Big Data and thought that with this note I might form a preface… First… Big Data is about, well…, Big Data. When Gartner devised the three V’s I suspect that...
View ArticleThe Hype of Big Data
As preface to this you might check out the definition I suggested for Big Data last week here… – Rob I left Greenplum in large part because they made their mark in… and then abandoned… the data...
View ArticlePart 1: How Hadooped is Your RDBMS?
Sorry for the comic adjective “Hadooped”? The next few blogs will try to evaluate the different approaches to integrating Hadoop and a standard RDBMS… so the first thing I’ll try in this post is to...
View ArticlePart 6: How Hadooped is HANA?
Now for HANA plus Hadoop… to continue this thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I have suggested that we could evaluate integration architecture using three...
View ArticlePart 8 – How Hadooped is SQL Server PDW with Polybase?
Now for SQL Server… continuing the thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7) I have suggested that we could evaluate integration architecture using...
View ArticleAn Architecture for the IoT – Part 1
There are so many things in the Internet of Things (IoT) that might record data into your data fabric that a new approach may be required. Let’s think about this… define some terms, and see how these...
View ArticleUsing Teradata’s Appliance for Hadoop to Reduce TCO
Teradata has recently announced a very complete Teradata database-to-Hadoop integration. Is this note we’ll consider how a Teradata shop might effectively use these features to significantly reduce the...
View ArticleA Modern Data Warehouse Architecture: Part 3 – Build an EDW Annex
In the first two post of this series (here and here) I first suggested that Hadoop could be effectively used as the platform for staging and then suggested that a modern warehouse would have a...
View ArticleMore thinking on Specialized Databases
Recently I posted (here) some thinking that suggested that the cost of replicating data into specialized databases might outweigh the benefits of specialization. This post will present a counter view...
View ArticleHadoop Squeezes Greenplum
For several years now I have been suggesting that Hadoop will squeeze the big data RDBMSs: Teradata, Exadata, Greenplum, and Netezza… squeezing them first out of the big data end of the market and then...
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