Kognitio is private and well-known to be in the process of trying to raise a round of venture capital to help fund their expansion in the US. But they do already have a presence over here.

Best,

CAM

Thanks
Ali.

I am very much pro wx2, and planning to move our stress testing infrastructure to wx2(Not completely), and
the main reason is savings on hardware, - what 2 Oracle servers can do 1 wx2 can do very easily.

We support DataAllegro. However they refused to provide us with a hardware, and whatever testing we have done so far is by connecting to a remote machine. We did a lot of functional testing, but real stress testing with at least 100
GB of data was not possible. Our program managers are in constant touch with DA, but I personally do not know much abouyt where they are headed to.

I used to be a Teradata fan, and then a Netezza fan, but if you can find one vendor that would suffer from advancement in
hardware technology, - that would be netezza. They are very primarily read intensive, and they probably read more than any other RDBMS patforms. What happened in last 3 years that disk capacity has gone up 6 times, and hence their
parallelism has dropped 6 times for the same volume of data. What 6 SPAs used to hold a few years ago,
1 SPA can do it now(In terms of capacity), and the disk rpm has remained almost the same. Their only way out of this situation is somehow reducing the read time by compressing the table, and they are trying to do that.
Thanks

Thanks for the kind words. And thanks even more for the detailed information!

Do you actually recommend WX-2 to your customers, or are you just helping out the one who buy it on their own?

Also, have you looked at DATAllegro? When they improved their capability to handle intermediate result sets a version or so ago, they explicitly mentioned Microstrategy as an example of software that would benefit.

(And if you’d like to talk more privately, that’s great. There’s a contact page on http://www.monash.com that says how to reach me.)

Best,

CAM

Regarding large intermediate result set, we are in majority of the cases try to create the result set in the memory by creating derived tables(or common table expression from db2 world), and that way we are reducing the write. However there are always cases where we cannot get the final result set out by one big query, and in those cases we fall back to intermediate tables.

There is one word of caution for WX2, and we have learned in the hard way! If you create a true table and remove it from the disk, it leaves a hole in their data file(They start writing from the end of the disk, and try to put a table in a continuous manner to reduce the disk head movement). And feom time to time we need to lock the database and reclaim the space. Database performance detoriorates as the number of holes grow, and at some point wx2 stops creating any table.
Due to this reason, we are recommending our customers to use global temp tables (which are memory only) instead of tru tables.

In terms of maturity of the product and ease of operations, I myself would like to place them above GreenPlum and Vertica.
Paraccel is another one I am talking with, but have not got hold of their software.

And Aurt, this is the only website I have found so far in last eight years which deals with the critical aspects of different DBMSs. Keep up the good work.

Thanks
Aniruddha MItra
Database Operations, MicroStrategy

Benchmarks are going to vary very widely according to the exact database and queries you are using. 10-200x vs. Oracle is common for any of these technologies, at least among the most favorable parts of the test.

DB2 seems to be subject to similar I/O bottlenecks than Oracle; i.e., the shared-nothing architecture isn’t as shared-nothing as I once thought.

Teradata will typically show excellent performance too. The main issue with them is commonly price. In addition, for certain workloads, a good columnar system will blow away anything row-based. And almost every system has some queries or workloads at which it outshines other generally comparable products.

A key feature of Microstrategy workloads is large intermediate result sets. I’d expect the vendors who’ve focused on inter-node communication to do particularly well on those.

CAM

So far, I have a perfect track record of not attending TDWI. At some point it may get easier to just go, rather than explain to a zillion clients why I’m NOT going, but I do think I’ll miss it again this time.

Best,

CAM

Thanks for the time last week. The US customer is Calit2 and the project that they use WX2 as on on-premise software environment
for is referred to as CAMERA.

I forgot to ask on our call; will you be at TDWI in Las Vegas? If you are, please come to our launch party on Monday night.
The theme is the British Invasion. No slideware or pitches, just drinks and entertainment. I hope that you can come.

Best,
John
847 251 5305

Please tell me that means dates too.

CAM