December 9, 2012

Amazon Redshift and its implications

Merv Adrian and Doug Henschen both reported more details about Amazon Redshift than I intend to; see also the comments on Doug’s article. I did talk with Rick Glick of ParAccel a bit about the project, and he noted:

“We didn’t want to do the deal on those terms” comments from other companies suggest ParAccel’s main financial take from the deal is an already-reported venture investment.

The cloud-related engineering was mainly around communications, e.g. strengthening error detection/correction to make up for the lack of dedicated switches. In general, Rick seemed more positive on running in the (Amazon) cloud than analytic RDBMS vendors have been in the past.

So who should and will use Amazon Redshift? For starters, I’d say: Read more

October 17, 2012

Hadoop/RDBMS integration: Aster SQL-H and Hadapt

Two of the more interesting approaches for integrating Hadoop and MapReduce with relational DBMS come from my clients at Teradata Aster (via SQL/MR and SQL-H) and Hadapt. In both cases, the story starts:

Of course, there are plenty of differences. Those start: Read more

October 17, 2012

The Teradata Aster Big Analytics Aster/Hadoop appliance

My clients at Teradata are introducing a mix-em/match-em Aster/Hadoop box, officially called the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance. Basics include:

My views on the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance start: Read more

August 27, 2012

Aerospike, the former Citrusleaf

My new clients at Aerospike have a range of minor news to announce:

Mainly, however, they want to call your attention to the fact that they’ve been selling a fast, reliable key-value store, with a number of production references, and want to suggest that other organizations should perhaps buy it as well.

Generally, the Aerospike product story is as I described in two posts last year. At the highest level:

AeroSpike’s three core marketing claims are performance, consistent performance, and uninterrupted operations.

Aerospike technical details start with the expected: Read more

July 18, 2012

Clustrix 4.0 and other Clustrix stuff

It feels like time to write about Clustrix, which I last covered in detail in May, 2010, and which is releasing Clustrix 4.0 today. Clustrix and Clustrix 4.0 basics include:

The biggest Clustrix installation seems to be 20 nodes or so. Others seem to have 10+. I presume those disaster recovery customers have 6 or more nodes each. I’m not quite sure how the arithmetic on that all works; perhaps the 125ish count of nodes is a bit low.

Clustrix technical notes include: Read more

July 5, 2012

Introduction to Neo Technology and Neo4j

I’ve been talking some with the Neo Technology/Neo4j guys, including Emil Eifrem (CEO/cofounder), Johan Svensson (CTO/cofounder), and Philip Rathle (Senior Director of Products). Basics include:

Numbers and historical facts include:

Read more

June 18, 2012

Introduction to MemSQL

I talked with MemSQL shortly before today’s launch. MemSQL technology basics are:

MemSQL’s performance claims include:

MemSQL company basics include: Read more

June 12, 2012

QlikTech bought Expressor

QlikTech has bought Expressor. Notes on that include:

June 3, 2012

Introduction to Cloudant

Cloudant is one of the few NoSQL companies with >100 paying subscription customers. For starters:

Company demographics include:

The Cloudant guys gave me some customer counts in May that weren’t much higher than those they gave me in February, and seem to have forgotten to correct the discrepancy. Oh well. The latter (probably understated) figures included ~160 paying customers, of which:

The largest Cloudant deployments seem to be in the 10s of terabytes, across a very low double digit number of servers.

Read more

April 4, 2012

Clarifying IBM DB2 Express-C crippleware

When Conor O’Mahony briefed me about DB2 10, he kept commenting that cool features he was talking about could be found in all editions of DB2, even the free one. So I asked what the limitations were on free DB2. He researched the matter and got back to me — and they sounded like what appeared to have been the limits when free DB2 was first introduced, over 6 years ago.

I tweeted about this, and was very fortunate that Ian Bjorhovde spoke up and said it wasn’t correct. Some scrambling ensued. It seems that the main sources of error were:

In particular, we shouldn’t take IBM’s repeated 2006 statements that

DB2 Express-C may be deployed on …  on AMD or Intel x86 systems with up to 2 dual-core chips. 4 GB of memory is the maximum supported.

to mean that you were ever allowed to use DB2 Express-C with 4 cores, nor with 4 GB of RAM.

To clarify things, Conor sent over email with permission to quote, as follows: Read more

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