Medium-scale analytic data marts and warehouses
Date:
By: Philip Howard
Classification: Market Update
This paper covers medium-scale analytic data
marts and warehouses. That is, environments
where there is a substantial requirement for
complex and/or unpredictable queries but
not things like master data management or
operational BI (or only to a limited extent).
Note that not all of the vendors included in this
paper have the ability to scale all the way up to
50Tb. For example, Kickfire is currently limited
to 10Tb. More details of scalability limits are
provided in the Market Report associated
with this update. Note that neither SAP nor
HP appear in this update. In the former case
this is because we do not think that you would
deploy SAP BW for an analytic data mart
unless you are already deploying SAP BW as
your enterprise data warehouse, in the latter
case it is because HP is specifically targeting
EDWs rather than data marts.