http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/netezza-vs-conventional-data-warehousing-rdbms/ Choices in data management and analysis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/netezza-vs-conventional-data-warehousing-rdbms/#comment-82939 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services » Blog Archive » Infobright BrightHouse — columnar, VERY compressed, simple, and related to MySQL Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:09:19 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/netezza-vs-conventional-data-warehousing-rdbms/#comment-82939 [...] information is stored in data pack nodes,* one per data pack. If you’re familiar with Netezza zone maps, data pack nodes sound like zone maps on steroids. They store maximum values, minimum values, and [...] [...] information is stored in data pack nodes,* one per data pack. If you’re familiar with Netezza zone maps, data pack nodes sound like zone maps on steroids. They store maximum values, minimum values, and [...]

]]> http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/netezza-vs-conventional-data-warehousing-rdbms/#comment-6993 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Competitive issues in data warehouse ease of administration Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:03:28 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/netezza-vs-conventional-data-warehousing-rdbms/#comment-6993 [...] Netezza has no indices at all. And no caches. And the hardware is preconfigured. This all makes administration pretty simple. [...] [...] Netezza has no indices at all. And no caches. And the hardware is preconfigured. This all makes administration pretty simple. [...]

]]> http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/netezza-vs-conventional-data-warehousing-rdbms/#comment-6562 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Netezza’s chip story Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:25:33 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/netezza-vs-conventional-data-warehousing-rdbms/#comment-6562 [...] In addition to its software story, Netezza of course has a rather unique chip story. Where other vendors might have standard disk controllers and high-powered microprocessors, Netezza respectively has a FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) and lesser microprocessor (PowerPC). Netezza claims that the advantages of these choices are: [...] [...] In addition to its software story, Netezza of course has a rather unique chip story. Where other vendors might have standard disk controllers and high-powered microprocessors, Netezza respectively has a FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) and lesser microprocessor (PowerPC). Netezza claims that the advantages of these choices are: [...]

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