http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/24/vertica-finally-spells-out-its-compression-claims/ 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/2008/09/24/vertica-finally-spells-out-its-compression-claims/#comment-142545 Oracle Exadata 2 capacity pricing | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:11:09 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=568#comment-142545 [...] *Greg Rahn of Oracle tweeted me yesterday that one customer is getting 12-17X compression on “dimensional model” data. That sounds comparable to Vertica’s claim of 20X on “marketing analytics” and 30X on “consumer data&#8.... [...] [...] *Greg Rahn of Oracle tweeted me yesterday that one customer is getting 12-17X compression on “dimensional model” data. That sounds comparable to Vertica’s claim of 20X on “marketing analytics” and 30X on “consumer data&#8…. [...]

]]> http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/24/vertica-finally-spells-out-its-compression-claims/#comment-99391 Quick guide to Teradata’s announcements this week | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:39:53 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=568#comment-99391 [...] work underway that’s getting 20X compression in call detail records, versus the 8X that Vertica claims. I’ll post more about that [...] [...] work underway that’s getting 20X compression in call detail records, versus the 8X that Vertica claims. I’ll post more about that [...]

]]> http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/24/vertica-finally-spells-out-its-compression-claims/#comment-98134 Oracle Database Machine performance and compression | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:39:50 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=568#comment-98134 [...] Each of the customers cited below received “half” an Oracle Database Machine. As I previously noted, an Oracle Database Machine holds either 14.0 or 46.2 terabytes of uncompressed data. This suggests the 220 TB customer listed below — LGR Telecommunications — got compression of a little under 10:1 for a CDR (Call Detail Record) database. By comparison, Vertica claims 8:1 compression on CDRs. [...] [...] Each of the customers cited below received “half” an Oracle Database Machine. As I previously noted, an Oracle Database Machine holds either 14.0 or 46.2 terabytes of uncompressed data. This suggests the 220 TB customer listed below — LGR Telecommunications — got compression of a little under 10:1 for a CDR (Call Detail Record) database. By comparison, Vertica claims 8:1 compression on CDRs. [...]

]]> http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/24/vertica-finally-spells-out-its-compression-claims/#comment-97871 Database compression is heavily affected by the kind of data | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:56:01 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=568#comment-97871 [...] whose details I forget for now — they could only do 2.5X. Edit: Vertica has now posted much more accurate versions of those numbers. Infobright’s 30X compression reference at TradeDoubler seems to be for a clickstream-type [...] [...] whose details I forget for now — they could only do 2.5X. Edit: Vertica has now posted much more accurate versions of those numbers. Infobright’s 30X compression reference at TradeDoubler seems to be for a clickstream-type [...]

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