Comments on: Boston Big Data Summit keynote outline http://www.dbms2.com/2009/11/23/boston-big-data-summit-keynote-outline/ Choices in data management and analysis Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:07:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Malcolm http://www.dbms2.com/2009/11/23/boston-big-data-summit-keynote-outline/comment-page-1/#comment-150965 Malcolm Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:19:41 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=1227#comment-150965 Interested in your comment, "Many people don’t really know how to write SQL". I think it's even worse than that: many web developers are writing using frameworks that don't allow them to easily see the SQL generated, so they don't even think to tune it. Maybe we have become blase, thinking that the database problem is "solved", because it's invisible. However, I agree that even if they could see the SQL, most developers wouldn't know what to do with it. Database and query tuning remain black arts. Interested in your comment, “Many people don’t really know how to write SQL”.

I think it’s even worse than that: many web developers are writing using frameworks that don’t allow them to easily see the SQL generated, so they don’t even think to tune it. Maybe we have become blase, thinking that the database problem is “solved”, because it’s invisible.

However, I agree that even if they could see the SQL, most developers wouldn’t know what to do with it. Database and query tuning remain black arts.

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2009/11/23/boston-big-data-summit-keynote-outline/comment-page-1/#comment-150425 Curt Monash Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:27:01 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=1227#comment-150425 Jerome, No promises of completeness are implied. But last I looked, Aster and Vertica had a little more cloud track record -- with "little" being the operative word -- than most of the others. Jerome,

No promises of completeness are implied.

But last I looked, Aster and Vertica had a little more cloud track record — with “little” being the operative word — than most of the others.

]]> By: Jerome Pineau http://www.dbms2.com/2009/11/23/boston-big-data-summit-keynote-outline/comment-page-1/#comment-150421 Jerome Pineau Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:02:21 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=1227#comment-150421 Really cool list. Do you consider Aster (and Vertica, which I don't believe you mentioned) the only viable/existing cloud players in the big data world or do you see others in there? Thanks J. Really cool list. Do you consider Aster (and Vertica, which I don’t believe you mentioned) the only viable/existing cloud players in the big data world or do you see others in there?

Thanks
J.

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