Archive for MPP
The Word on the Street (Teradata, Netezza, Vertica, ParAccel, Greenplum)
I started investigating Google Insight to see what the search volumes are with regard to a few of the competing database technologies. My interest is primarily in Teradata, Netezza, Vertica, ParAccel, and Greenplum. Since text mining
Vertica on a Stick
Can you believe it? A bootable 16 Gb thumb-drive with Linux, GUI, Vertica AND room for data!?
Yes, I admit it. I am a geek. But how cool is this. Imagine developing, prototyping, and presenting a data warehouse without procuring a server, installing Linux, or commandeering your hard drive. Everything you need is on a small [...]
Can Netezza Search for Aliens?
While I am on the innovation “rant” it reminds me of a few discussions I had with some of the brass at Netezza. I have been fortunate to have been invited to the Netezza campus a few times and we had a few blue-sky sessions. (This was before they got their new digs and their IPO.) My [...]
Netezza Paved the Way
Are we seeing a paradigm shift today as we saw when Netezza first launched their MPP appliance? Probably, but I think the road for Netezza is still pretty golden.
…and this database is Just Right
There is no theoretical size limit on databases based on MPP architectures. (Massively parallel processing). The more nodes, SPUS, blades, or pizza boxes you have in your cluster, the more capacity your database has and the faster it will perform. With that said, I am pretty confident that Teradata, Netezza and Vertica can scale to the Petabyte size. There seems to be no real inhibiting factor that I know of
Benefits of Warehouse Virtualization
The flexibility is incredible. Vertica has created a virtual appliance that you can download and test drive. If you don’t have a virtualized environment, you will need to download VMWare’s free VMware Player to run it on your desktop.
New Era of Virtualized Data Warehousing?
Vertica ushers in new era of data warehouse savings, simplicity and scalability through virtualization. Vertica Analytic Database running on VMware helps datacenters consolidate “tera-mart” and data warehouse deployments in virtualized “private cloud” environments.