Comments on: SAP’s BI Accelerator http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/ Choices in data management and analysis Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chemicala SM Reddy http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-21201 Chemicala SM Reddy Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:45:02 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-21201 The BI Accelerator is one of the greatest innvoative product to deal with modern business data.There is no shame about the cost,afterall it is doing a lot of quick data processing for large business organizations, which is at really affordable cost . Great product. The BI Accelerator is one of the greatest innvoative product to deal with modern business data.There is no shame about
the cost,afterall it is doing a lot of quick data processing for large business organizations, which is at really affordable
cost . Great product.

]]> By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » SAP’s “search” strategy isn’t about search http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-19823 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » SAP’s “search” strategy isn’t about search Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:51:55 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-19823 [...] Dennis didn’t actually give me a lot of details, at least not ones he’s eager to see published at this time. That said, SAP has long had a bare-bones search engine TREX. (TREX was also adapted to create the columnar relational data manager BI Accelerator.) But we didn’t talk about TREX enhancements at all, and I’m guessing there haven’t really been many. Rather, SAP’s focus seems to be on: [...] [...] Dennis didn’t actually give me a lot of details, at least not ones he’s eager to see published at this time. That said, SAP has long had a bare-bones search engine TREX. (TREX was also adapted to create the columnar relational data manager BI Accelerator.) But we didn’t talk about TREX enhancements at all, and I’m guessing there haven’t really been many. Rather, SAP’s focus seems to be on: [...]

]]> By: DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Who’s who in columnar relational database management systems http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-16413 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Who’s who in columnar relational database management systems Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:45:50 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-16413 [...] The best known columnar RDBMS is surely Sybase’s IQ Accelerator, evolved from a product acquired in the mid-1990s. Problem – it doesn’t have a shared-nothing architecture of the sort needed to exploit grid/blade technology. Whoops. The other recognized player is SAND, but I don’t know a lot about them. Based on their website, it would seem that grids and compression play a big part in their story. Less established but pretty interesting is Kognitio, who are just beginning to make marketing noise outside the UK. SAP’s BI Accelerator is also a compressed columnar system, but operates entirely in-memory and hence is limited in possible database size. Mike Stonebraker’s startup Vertica is of course the new kid on the block, and there are other columnar startups as well whose names currently escape me. [...] [...] The best known columnar RDBMS is surely Sybase’s IQ Accelerator, evolved from a product acquired in the mid-1990s. Problem – it doesn’t have a shared-nothing architecture of the sort needed to exploit grid/blade technology. Whoops. The other recognized player is SAND, but I don’t know a lot about them. Based on their website, it would seem that grids and compression play a big part in their story. Less established but pretty interesting is Kognitio, who are just beginning to make marketing noise outside the UK. SAP’s BI Accelerator is also a compressed columnar system, but operates entirely in-memory and hence is limited in possible database size. Mike Stonebraker’s startup Vertica is of course the new kid on the block, and there are other columnar startups as well whose names currently escape me. [...]

]]> By: Lothar Schubert http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-15058 Lothar Schubert Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:50:03 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-15058 In response to the last contributor's comment... Let’s look at the upside of BI Accelerator for a moment... Today users are familiar with the speed of the consumer Web, and expect similar response times from BI applications. With traditional DBMS centric models being not up to that task, IT attempted to solve this problem with the “kill with iron” approach – throwing tons of hardware at the challenge. That was a very expensive proposition, with often only mediocre results. With BI Accelerator, a fundamentally new approach has been taken, combining benefits of hardware (latest chips) and software (latest innovations) and maximizing synergies in a new “appliance” model. In summary, costs are typically significant lower than with traditional approaches (increased or specialty hardware) – with by far superior results for the business. In response to the last contributor’s comment…

Let’s look at the upside of BI Accelerator for a moment… Today users are familiar with the speed of the consumer Web, and expect similar response times from BI applications. With traditional DBMS centric models being not up to that task, IT attempted to solve this problem with the “kill with iron” approach – throwing tons of hardware at the challenge. That was a very expensive proposition, with often only mediocre results. With BI Accelerator, a fundamentally new approach has been taken, combining benefits of hardware (latest chips) and software (latest innovations) and maximizing synergies in a new “appliance” model. In summary, costs are typically significant lower than with traditional approaches (increased or specialty hardware) – with by far superior results for the business.

]]> By: Andy Holloway http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-15055 Andy Holloway Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:54:46 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/09/20/saps-bi-accelerator/#comment-15055 Great product, shame about the software cost. It can't be right that the software costs 4 times the hardware! For us, this has made the product completely unviable. Such a crucial technology should be a base part of the Netweaver license, or at worst a one-time worst a one-time charge regardless of the number of blades it runs on. Great product, shame about the software cost. It can’t be right that the software costs 4 times the hardware! For us, this has made the product completely unviable.
Such a crucial technology should be a base part of the Netweaver license, or at worst a one-time worst a one-time charge regardless of the number of blades it runs on.

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