Exadata is looking good. In the past few months, I’ve had the chance to talk to several early adopters of Oracle Exadata V2, some in connection with a sponsored white paper Oracle has just published. It’s still early, but I see this product as a milestone, regardless of its commercial success. That is still toContinue reading “Oracle Exadata: Early Signs Promising”
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VoltDB – DIY OLTP. Open Source. Win.
In a seemingly perfect marriage of product and target market, database pioneer Mike Stonebraker’s new in-memory database company VoltDB has emerged from stealth mode using the open source model, soon to be open core. Its first release, GPL licensed Community Edition will appeal to developers who need blindingly fast transaction processing and are willing toContinue reading “VoltDB – DIY OLTP. Open Source. Win.”
IBM Gets Feisty — Mobilizes Analytics for Oracle Battle
In July 2009, IBM announced the Smart Analytics System 7600, a workload-optimized, pre-integrated bundle of hardware and software targeted at the business analytics market. Included in that package are an IBM POWER 550 running AIX, storage, plus InfoSphere Warehouse Enterprise Edition (which consists of DB2, Warehouse design and management tools + Cubing, Data Mining andContinue reading “IBM Gets Feisty — Mobilizes Analytics for Oracle Battle”
Sybase Rolls On – Make Some Noise!
Sybase has announced yet another record revenue result for the third quarter of 2009. Like other leading data management firms, its database business demonstrated continuing vitality in a difficult economic period. With 32% growth in database licensing revenues against a strong year over year comparison, the venerable DBMS provider continued a string of recent strong results.
Oracle on Database: It’s On. And They’re Not Kidding.
Oracle is the company that led the industry into making RDBMS the data persistence vehicle of choice, and though its flagship is still Number One, many other topics floated around as 35,000 people attended Oracle Open World (OOW) in San Francisco recently. The spotlight stayed firmly planted: “What will Larry say about clouds/IBM/Fusion apps?”; Marc Benioff and Larry; Arnold and Larry. ButContinue reading “Oracle on Database: It’s On. And They’re Not Kidding.”
Will AEP Replace RDBMS? A Dialogue With Charles Brett
Analytic Event Processing (AEP) is hot. But does it mean RDBMS begins to decline in importance? Charles Brett of C3B Consulting and I recently had a quick dialogue about it and came up with different conclusions. That conversation is reproduced here. It’s only the beginning – l hope you will weigh in with your thoughts.
Sybase’s DBMS Business Shows Sea Legs – But Challenges Lay Ahead
Sybase has rolled out a good Q2 in difficult times, reflecting once again the steady, effective management that has characterized the past few years. All-time highs in margins, earnings, and cash flow – coming at the bottom (one hopes) of the current recession – are nothing to sneeze at. The first highlighted item in chairmanContinue reading “Sybase’s DBMS Business Shows Sea Legs – But Challenges Lay Ahead”
iLuminate Aims To Enable Exploratory Analytics
iLuminate 4.0 has just been released, and its parent firm, Illuminate, is ramping a campaign to join the “new analytic DBMS” party. With a very different architecture based on storing and indexing values in an inverted-list like model, the “correlation database” or CDBMS has been winning some traction with a powerful value proposition: shorter “timeContinue reading “iLuminate Aims To Enable Exploratory Analytics”
Greenplum – Reaching Escape Velocity
Greenplum is one of several companies who have defied the notion that “RDBMS has been done,” and one of the most successful of late on the high end (of scale, but not necessarily price.) The argument goes that it’s a waste of time to build a new enterprise class RDBMS – kernel, optimizer, and associated feature set –Continue reading “Greenplum – Reaching Escape Velocity”
Multi-Tenant DWs: Sybase IQ Defends its Analytic DBMS Turf
Sometimes Sybase IQ seems like the Rodney Dangerfield of analytic DBMSs (ADBMS) – no respect. The pioneering column-based DBMS first shipped in 1995, shipped release 15 at the end of Q1, and has 1650 customers. But all the noise seems to be about more recent entrants these days, and Sybase is stepping up to change that. TheContinue reading “Multi-Tenant DWs: Sybase IQ Defends its Analytic DBMS Turf”