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Infology.Ru » Blog Archive » Быстрый обзор технологий хранилищ данных — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:27:00 +0000

[...] нагрузки. Среди них Teradata, Netezza, DATAllegro, Greenplum, Dataupia, и SAS. Все они, за исключением SAS целиком или в основном [...]

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:22:23 +0000

I’m sorry, Tamas, but “SAS” IS fully spelled out. It’s not an acronym for anything. It is what it is.

The SAS Institute is a pretty major company, and it tends to name its products after itself.

Best regards,

CAM

By: Tamas Feher

Tamas Feher — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:08:32 +0000

Please abandon the use of ambigious shorthands! SAS can mean “Special Air Service” (badass british army airborne commando troops who do a lot of intelligence and infiltration on enemy territory) or Scandinavian Airlines or whatnot.

I understand americans just love using shorthands, but this is a maddening experience for many readers. Hopefully the keyboard won’t wear out if you spell out the names fully alongside the shorthand when used for the first time.

Thanks in advance, Tamas Feher from Hungary.

By: DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Really big databases

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:04:42 +0000

[...] Oracle, IBM, Teradata, Netezza, and DATAllegro have plenty of customers each above the 20 terabyte size; apparently even Greenplum has one. For that matter, SAS software directly manages some multi-hundred-terabyte databases. [...]