June 5, 2009

Greenplum update — Release 3.3 and so on

I visited Greenplum in early April, and talked with them again last night. As I noted in a separate post, there are a couple of subjects I won’t write about today. But that still leaves me free to cover a number of other points about Greenplum, including: Read more

April 25, 2009

Vertica pricing and customer metrics

Since last fall, Vertica’s stated pricing has been “$100K per terabyte of user data.” Vertica hastens to point out that unlike, for example, appliance vendors or Sybase, it only charges for deployment licenses; development and test are free (although of course you have to Bring Your Own hardware). Offer the past few weeks, I’ve gotten other pricing comments from Vertica to the effect that:

I didn’t press my luck and ask exactly what “average” means in this context.

As for customers, metrics I got include: Read more

April 24, 2009

IBM’s Oracle emulation strategy reconsidered

I’ve now had a chance to talk with IBM about its recently-announced Oracle emulation strategy for DB2. (This is for DB2 9.7, which I gather has been quasi-announced in April, will be re-announced in May, and will be re-re-announced as being in general availability in June.)

Key points include:

Because of Oracle’s market share, many ISVs focus on Oracle as the underlying database management system for their applications, whether or not they actually resell it along with their own software. IBM proposed three reasons why such ISVs might want to support DB2: Read more

March 7, 2009

Greenplum discloses a bit of pricing

Getting information about Greenplum pricing is not always easy.  However, a bit was disclosed in a recent Greenplum blog post, which said:

… roughly $200k … For that amount you get the hardware, software and services to stand up around a 4TB (usable) Greenplum DW …

No doubt there are large quantity discounts for much bigger systems.

February 25, 2009

Partial overview of Ab Initio Software

Ab Initio is an absurdly secretive company, as per a couple of prior posts and the comment threads on same. But yesterday at TDWI I actually found civil people staffing an Ab Initio trade show booth. Based on that conversation and other tidbits, I think it’s fairly safe to say: Read more

February 23, 2009

Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track

Stuart Frost of Microsoft (nee’ DATAllegro) checked in, with Microsoft’s TDWI-timed announcements. The news part was something called “SQL Server Fast Track“, which is the Microsoft SQL Server equivalent to Oracle’s “recommended configurations” or IBM’s “BCUs.” SQL Server Fast Track is further being portrayed as an incremental step toward Madison, Microsoft’s future high-end data warehousing offering.

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February 23, 2009

MapReduce user eHarmony chose Netezza over Aster or Greenplum

Depending on which IDG reporter you believe, eHarmony has either 4 TB of data or more than 12 TB, stored in Oracle but now analyzed on Netezza.  Interestingly, eHarmony is a Hadoop/MapReduce shop, but chose Netezza over Aster Data or Greenplum even so.  Price was apparently an important aspect of the purchase decision. Netezza also seems to have had a very smooth POC. Read more

February 12, 2009

IBM in the cloud

IBM is making DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, and other products available in the Amazon cloud.  The press release says test and development are free, while production will be charged at an hourly rate.  No doubt more price details will be forthcoming when the whole thing is fully in production.

Frankly, I’ve lost track of who all has some kind of cloud or SaaS offering now.  The list is at least Oracle, IBM, presumably Microsoft, MySQL (via Elastra, and also at almost every web host), PostgreSQL (ditto, more or less), EnterpriseDB, Kognitio, Vertica, Netezza, Aster Data.  No doubt I’m forgetting a bunch more.

January 27, 2009

Introduction to Pentaho

I finally caught up with Pentaho, which along with Jaspersoft is one of the two most visible open source business intelligence companies, Actuate perhaps excepted. Highlights included:

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November 22, 2008

The Teradata Accelerate program

An article in Intelligent Enterprise clued me in that Teradata has announced the Teradata Accelerate program. A little poking around revealed a press release in which — lo and behold — I am quoted,* to wit:

“The Teradata Accelerate program is a great idea. There’s no safer choice than Teradata technology plus Teradata consulting, bundled in a fixed-cost offering,” said Curt Monash, president of Monash Research. “The Teradata Purpose Built Platform Family members are optimized for a broad range of business intelligence and analytic uses.”

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