September 27, 2010
Further thoughts on previous posts
One thing I love about DBMS 2 is the really smart comments a number of readers — that would be you guys — make. However, not all the smart comments are made in the first 5 minutes a post is up, so some readers (unless you circle back) might miss great points other readers make. Well, here are some pointers to some of what you might have missed, along with other follow-up comments to old posts while I’m at it.
- Both on this blog and Reddit, there’s been considerable pushback against my idea that web usage types of user profile data shouldn’t be cluttering up an ACID-compliant database. But there’s also been considerable support, e.g. from Dan Weinreb, who knows quite a lot about huge OLTP systems.
- Meanwhile, RJP supplied details about the JP Morgan Chase Oracle outage that my actual source didn’t know.
- For obvious reasons, IBM wasn’t in a position to talk a lot of IBM/Netezza detail when we happened to chat post-merger-announcement. But they did want to set me straight on SAS being kicked out for SPSS, pointing out that SAS runs in the DB2 database today (scoring, not modeling).
- Product marketer Stephanie McReynolds added on to my post about Aster Data nCluster 4.6 in exactly the way I wish all vendors would. She added information I had been unsure about when I did the post — or had simply left out — and she was fast in doing so. I encourage all vendors I write about to follow her example.
- The comments on my post about Pentaho’s ETL-for-HDFS made the product sound more appealing than the post itself did.
- My August 18 NoSQL post was tailor-made for people to add-on pitches for their own favorite products, NoSQL-oriented websites, etc. A number of interesting such additions showed up accordingly.
- There were many thoughtful responses to my question about how somebody should teach themselves database programming skills. Indeed, whole other blog posts were written and linked back. That’s a great resource if you ever get the question asked by a friend or acquaintance of you.
- The flame war that erupted in response to my comments on vendor and analyst ethics spawned a number of more productive discussions elsewhere.
- Jeff Hammerbacher has made various comments to the effect “Yes indeedy! Hadoop does that too!” (My wording, not his. :))
- Alin Dobra reported on some tests suggesting sequential reads remain far faster than random reads even on Flash SSDs.
- Calpont has an ever-slicker website and yet another new marketing VP, but no customers that are easy to detect.
- My July 4 privacy post engendered thoughtful discussion from three of the smartest guys who comment here — Chris Bird, Michael McIntire, and Dan Weinreb.
- IBM and Netezza both added crunchy details to my post about their data compression strategies.
- And for those of you who don’t read my other blogs — last night’s post was a long and optimistic rumination on the future of investigative reporting.
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