Analytic Databases (Data Warehousing) - What's Changed?
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Netezza Resurrection
IBM have announced a new offering which provides an upgrade path for existing Netezza users who have not already migrated away from that platform.
Teradata spins off Starburst
Teradata has announced that it is spinning off the support and development of the Presto SQL on Hadoop engine, into a new company called Starburst Data.
Teradata partners with Alation
Teradata will be reselling Alation's Data Discovery product in place of Loom.
Comfort zones
Stories are becoming broader and that doesn't necessarily make life easier
EXASOL expands
EXASOL, in addition to introducing version 5.0 of EXASolution, has been expanding overseas.
Calpont InfiniDB version 4.0
Calpont has released version 4.0 of its warehouse. Major features include extended cloud support and open source licensing plus the ability to run on HDFS.
What is Actian actually doing? - Why does Actian need so many databases?
Having not even digested Pervasive Software yet, Actian has now acquired ParAccel. Why?
Is data warehousing holding back the advance of analytics?
I take a look at Pervasive's DataRush, potentially the most disruptive idea in analytics since Bill Inmon told us to build data warehouses.
It’s a busy time of year
Lots of vendors bring out new releases at this time of year. Here are three of the less obvious but interesting ones in the database/warehousing/analytics space
HP reverts to type
After Mike Lynch's resignation and 27,000 job cuts at HP do the company's software products have a future?
Teradata and SAS join forces
Teradata and SAS have jointly launched an appliance. Given their respective positions in the market this is bad news for the competition.
Sybase IQ 15.4
Sybase IQ is a columnar database that was designed to support data warehousing from its inception.
Themes for 2012
Some thoughts about may happen next year in the information management space
EXASolution 4.0
EXASolution has a number of potential advantages over its rivals, which range from ease of implementation to performance and from low cost of ownership to rapid
IBM and big data: an introduction
IBM probably has the largest portfolio of products covering the big data space
Sybase IQ 15.3
Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications.
Exasol knocks the spots off
Exasol has just published 5 TP-H benchmark records, all the way up to 10Tb
Who will be Snow White?
Six of the new generation of warehousing vendors have been acquired. Is there anything useful to conclude about the companies being bought?
HP has another go
TDWI annoucements: HP buys Vertica and Kognitio announces Pablo
Bye-bye Neoview?
Reports suggest that HP is pulling out of HP. Why am I not surprised?
RainStor partners with Teradata
RainStor and Teradata have announced a data retention appliance that could have a significant impact on the market
IBM acquires Netezza
Good news for IBM; bad news for Oracle - why Bob Evans might just be right
Dual Loading for Teradata
Informatica has introduced a dual laoding option to support Teradata Active-Active implementations
Sybase IQ 15.2
The column-based approach advocated by Sybase will provide substantially better performance at lower cost than traditional approaches for analytical, reporting and data warehousing environments.
The impact of Mark Hurd
Does the departure of Mark Hurd from HP sound the death knell for NeoView?
And so, it begins …
EMC is acquiring Greenplum - good news for them, bad news for everyone else
Whither analytics?
What's happening with analytics and what can we expect.
Netezza Data Virtualizer - powered by Composite Software
Powered by the Composite Information Server, the Netezza Data Virtualizer provides a method for linking multiple Netezza appliances into a single, federated environment.
Sybase and SAP: the unanswered questions
There are major questions about information management in SAP's acquisition of Sybase
Vertica at TDWI
Verica has announced a major new release, version 4.0
Calpont finally comes to market
The Enterprise Edition of InfiniDB has been launched and it's pricing is going to hurt
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?
Warehousing for low latency analytics
Low latency analytics is becoming increasingly prevalent and we expect demand for the sorts of facilities described in this paper to grow substantially with time.
Data warehousing update
Interesting things going on at Dataupia, Calpont and InfoBright
Vertica 3.5
Vertica is one of the fastest growing next generation vendors of analytic warehouses.
EXASolution 3.0
EXASolution is the highest performing data warehousing system available in the market.
Sybase IQ 15.1
Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications.
Greenplum Database 3.3
Greenplum is one of the leading next generation vendors of analytic warehouses.
ParAccel PADB 2.0
ParAccel is one of the more rapidly growing next generation vendors of analytic warehouses.
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...
Large-scale analytic data marts and warehouses
This paper covers large-scale analytic data marts and warehouses.
Small-scale analytic data marts and warehouses
This paper covers small-scale analytic data marts and warehouses.
Medium-scale analytic data marts and warehouses
This paper covers medium-scale analytic data marts and warehouses.
Enterprise data warehouses
This paper discusses enterprise data warehouses. By this we mean an analytic warehouse that also incorporates requirements to support such things as MDM and operational BI.
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...
Sybase IQ 15
The column-based approach advocated by Sybase will provide substantially better performance at lower cost for analytical, reporting and data warehousing environments.
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....
Surfing to a warehouse near you
The big news at TDWI this week was the announcement of Netezza TwinFin. Surfers amongst you will know that a twinfin is a surf board with twin fins at the back: they are supposed to be extremely...
EXASolution
EXASolution is a massively parallel database management system especially developed for data warehousing applications.
Oracle and Sun: winners and losers
Sun is a hardware company that has, historically, been rubbish at marketing and selling software. Oracle, on the other hand, is very good at selling software but has no experience as a hardware...
Data warehousing with HP
We explore the differences between the various options now available from HP and explain how the company's partnership with Oracle strengthens its position.