Comments on the Gartner 2010/2011 Data Warehouse Database Management Systems...
Edit: Comments on the February, 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems — and on the companies reviewed in it — are now up. The Gartner 2010 Data Warehouse Database...
View ArticleUpdating our vendor client disclosures
Edit: This disclosure has been superseded by a March, 2012 version. From time to time, I disclose our vendor client lists. Another iteration is below. To be clear: This is a list of Monash Advantage...
View ArticleColumnar DBMS vendor customer metrics
Last April, I asked some columnar DBMS vendors to share customer metrics. They answered, but it took until now to iron out a couple of details. Overall, the answers are pretty impressive. Sybase said...
View ArticleEight kinds of analytic database (Part 1)
Analytic data management technology has blossomed, leading to many questions along the lines of “So which products should I use for which category of problem?” The old EDW/data mart dichotomy is...
View ArticleEight kinds of analytic database (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I outlined four variants on the traditional enterprise data warehouse/data mart dichotomy, and suggested what kinds of DBMS products you might use for each. In Part 2...
View ArticleWorkload management and RAM
Closing out my recent round of Teradata-related posts, here’s a little anomaly: Teradata is proud that Teradata 14′s workload management now explicitly manages I/O, to go with Teradata’s long-standing...
View ArticleClarifying SAND’s customer metrics, positioning and technical story
Talking with my clients at SAND can be confusing. That said: I need to revise my figures for SAND’s customer count way downward. SAND finally has a reasonably clear positioning. SAND’s product actually...
View ArticleOur clients, and where they are located
From time to time, I disclose our vendor client lists. Another iteration is below, the first since a little over a year ago. To be clear: This is a list of Monash Advantage members. All our vendor...
View ArticleNotes on some basic database terminology
In a call Monday with a prominent company, I was told: Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum and Vertica aren’t relational. Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum and Vertica are all data warehouse appliances. That, to...
View ArticleComments on Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database...
To my taste, the most glaring mis-rankings in the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management are that it is too positive on Kognitio and too negative on Infobright. Secondarily,...
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