July 24, 2008

Long, confused overview of data warehouse DBMS vendors

Steven Swoyer has an article for Enterprise Systems that covers a lot of issues in data warehouse technology. Unfortunately, however, it doesn’t always cover them correctly. E.g., he seems to imply that columnar architectures aren’t relational.  (Oops.)  I wouldn’t put too much credence in the other market segmentations he posits either.

Some of his theses, however, are basically correct.  E.g., he points out that demand for fast, cost-effective, (almost) unconstrained ad hoc queries keeps growing, and that much of the recent innovation is concerned with supplying them.

Categories: Data warehousing 
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One Response to “Long, confused overview of data warehouse DBMS vendors”

  1. Neil Raden on July 26th, 2008 7:12 pm

    I’ve had similar concerns about Swoyer’s reporting in the past. But for this article, in particular, he was way out of his depth.

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