May 23, 2010
Various quick notes
As you might imagine, there are a lot of blog posts I’d like to write I never seem to get around to, or things I’d like to comment on that I don’t want to bother ever writing a full post about. In some cases I just tweet a comment or link and leave it at that.
And it’s not going to get any better. Next week = the oft-postponed elder care trip. Then I’m back for a short week. Then I’m off on my quarterly visit to the SF area. Soon thereafter I’ve have a lot to do in connection with Enzee Universe. And at that point another month will have gone by.
Anyhow:
- Back in January, Oracle finally briefed me on Exadata 2. I also requested and got permission to post what I regarded as pretty interesting slides, then never got around to doing so. Well, here they are. (Pay no attention to the word “Confidential”.)
- Two people I have a lot of respect for, Cindi Howson and Doug Henschen, seem bullish on SAP’s in-memory NewDB efforts. But for a variety of execution reasons, I’m skeptical that this will matter for anything except SAP’s analytics suite. I.e., I don’t think anybody much except SAP will write OLTP apps to it, and I don’t think that without OLTP apps being written to it it’s much more than Business Objects’ answer to QlikView.
- I just learned that Netezza’s previous geospatial technology didn’t get ported to TwinFin. However, Netezza obviously found a geospatial alternative.
I ‘m beginning to make a habit of asking vendors for a postable version of their slide decks. Sybase IQ is another example.
- Google is doing something called BigQuery that is “SQL-like” for big data analytics. I don’t know anything about it.
- I also don’t know anything about IBM BigSheets yet. It sounds something like Datameer, but that could be way off the mark.
Categories: Analytic technologies, Business intelligence, Data warehousing, Exadata, GIS and geospatial, Google, IBM and DB2, Netezza, Oracle, Parallelization, SAP AG, SAS Institute
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where are the exadata slides – there is no link
Sorry — fixed!
But warning: They’re slow to download. It’s a >12 meg PDF.
You should take a look at Bigsheets and Datameer, it’s pretty interesting how they can translate a excel-like interface and formulas to run against pedabytes of data.
Also note that IBM along with the bigsheets announcement seems to now be supporting their own hadoop distro. Having IBM in the support game is going to make a big difference to fortune 500 style hadoop customers