Netezza is finally opening the kimono
I’ve bashed Netezza repeatedly for secrecy and obscurity about its technology and technical plans. Well, they’re getting a lot better. The latest post in a Netezza company blog, by marketing exec Phil Francisco, lays out their story clearly and concisely. And it’s backed up by a white paper that does more of the same. In particular, Page 11 of that white paper spells out possible future directions for enhancement, such as better compression, encryption, join filtering, and Netezza Developer Network stuff.
By the way, I kind of like nested acronyms, such as Netezza’s new FAST (FPGA-Accelerated Streaming Technology). But I’m not as thrilled about Netezza’s heavy use of “streaming”; I’d prefer that to be reserved for complex event/stream processing. However, they’ve been on that kick for a while, so I guess we’ll all have to live with it.
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Speaking about its secrecy and obscurity, Netezza doesn’t even make available a SQL Reference.
BTW, if you have problems figuring out the SQL syntax on Netezza, reading the Teradata SQL reference often helps.