Columns aren’t enough anymore
Vendors are adding additional features over and above columns to get improved performance but does this mean that they are heading into a niche?
Trends in MDM
Will the trend towards registries and away from hubs become permanent?
Data warehousing update
Interesting things going on at Dataupia, Calpont and InfoBright
Goodbye portability – hello tin
The introduction of Exadata V2 effectively makes Oracle closed and non-portability for high-end systems
Analytic Warehousing
We have just published our latest report into analytic warehousing. We've called it that because we are interested in environments where there is at least a significant analytic requirement that is...
Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Release 2 of the Oracle Database 11g is now generally available on Linux and will be for Windows, UNIX and other platforms in due course. As one might expect there is a lot in it, so I'll pick some...
Madison
The Madison was, of course, a dance. And it's where all those bridges are. But it's also the codename that Microsoft is using for its development of the technology it acquired when it bought...
Surfing in Hawaii
Kalido has announced the Kalido KONA Information Appliance. Of course, as you will know, Kona is the word for capital in Hawaiian and, since the appliance is based on the Netezza TwinFin, the...
The warehouse has gone missing – damn!
We will shortly be publishing my latest opus on data warehousing or, rather, on analytic warehousing. More about that when the time comes. But, of course, there's always stuff that you discover...
Vertica turns up performance
At TDWI this week, Vertica has announced version 3.5 of its eponymous product. This has two major features: FlexStore and MapReduce. Both of these merit discussion. Vertica is column-based....