May 22, 2008

Netezza on compression

Phil Francisco put up a nice post on Netezza’s company blog about a month ago, explaining the Netezza compression story. Highlights include:

Also in the post is a lot of chest-beating about Netezza’s thought-leading greatness, hyperbolically comparing the company to David Hume, or perhaps to the combination of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. Actually, I don’t think a careful analysis of either Hume’s or Kant’s work would give Phil much joy in the area of marketing metaphors, but hey — anything that calls attention to Hume’s greatness is OK by me. 🙂

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2 Responses to “Netezza on compression”

  1. shawn fox on July 1st, 2008 8:54 pm

    Netezza calls their compression feature compiled tables because the data on disk is basically a set of instructions that when fed into the FPGA results in a data set being produced (the original uncompressed / unencrypted data).

    Compiled tables will also be used to impliment encryption as well. Another possibile use of the compiled tables feature is row level security and virtual columns.

  2. Curt Monash on July 1st, 2008 10:19 pm

    Shawn,

    Yes, that’s what they say. But the “set of instructions” bit could be said of any compression scheme.

    CAM

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