Operational Databases (Technology-Value)

Covid-19 and IT

7th July 2020
Philip Howard

Philip Howard is impressed with what a lot of IT vendors are doing to support the fight against Covid-19, including SAS and the CovidGraph project.

Is YourSQL running too slowly?

13th April 2012
Philip Howard

Tokutek provides an interesting alternative to sharding, SSDs or relacement databases if MySQL is running too slowly

IBM pureScale Application System vs. Oracle Exadata X2-2

26th August 2011
Philip Howard

We takes a close look at IBM pureScale Application System and Oracle Exadata X2-2, comparing their scalability, clustering technology, performance, implementation and administration ease, and costs.