BLU Acceleration25th April 2013Philip Howard BLU Acceleration provides significantly improved query performance in IBM DB2 data warehousing environments.
De-duplication in a graph database21st March 2013Philip Howard Could you use a graph database for matching? Yes, almost certainly. And, if so, how would that compete with data quality tools?
What exactly is in-memory?14th May 2012Philip Howard In-memory processing can be used for a lot of different things within data warehousing
Is YourSQL running too slowly?13th April 2012Philip Howard Tokutek provides an interesting alternative to sharding, SSDs or relacement databases if MySQL is running too slowly
NoSQL and NewSQL11th November 2011Philip Howard NewSQL databases have new architectures but are designed specifically for OLTP, supporting SQL
The EDW is dead29th June 2011Philip Howard It's not just big data, the EDW doesn't work even for structured environments
The lesser-known MDM4th March 2011Philip Howard There are many less well-known MDM vendors. One such (certainly in the UK) is Riversand.
DataRush extends its boundaries14th June 2010Philip Howard The latest release of Pervasive DataRush extends its acapabilities to include data mining capabilities.