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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Watch out for VectorWise

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In the last few years, there have been so many new analytical DBMS startups de-cloaking that it’s difficult to keep track of them all. Just ...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Announcing release of HadoopDB (longer version)

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If you have a short attention span see the shorter blog post . If you have a large attention span, see the complete 12-page paper . There ar...
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Announcing release of HadoopDB (shorter version)

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I'm pleased to announce the release of HadoopDB. HadoopDB is: A hybrid of DBMS and MapReduce technologies targeting analytical query wor...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Sybase IQ throws its hat into the in-DBMS analytics ring

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Sybase IQ announced this week the availability of Sybase IQ 15.1. The press release made it clear that this version is all about in-DBMS ana...
Monday, July 6, 2009

ParAccel and their puzzling TPC-H results

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[ Warning: the ParAccel TPC-H results referred to in this post have since been challenged by a competitor and found to be in violation of ce...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

More on node scalability

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I'm at SIGMOD this week, so I'll make this blog post quick: A week and a half ago, I blogged on analytical database scalability . Th...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

What is the right way to measure scale?

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Berkeley Professor Joe Hellerstein wrote a really interesting blog post a month ago, comparing two wildly different hardware architectures ...
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Daniel Abadi
Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. He is best-known for the development of the storage and query execution engines of the C-Store (column-oriented database) prototype, which was commercialized by Vertica and eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, for his HadoopDB research on fault tolerant scalable analytical database systems which was commercialized by Hadapt and acquired by Teradata in 2014, and deterministic, scalable, transactional, distributed systems such as Calvin which is currently being commercialized by Fauna. Abadi has been a recipient of a Churchill Scholarship, a NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a VLDB Best Paper Award, two VLDB 10 year Best Paper Awards, the 2008 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, the 2013-2014 Yale Provost's Teaching Prize, and the 2013 VLDB Early Career Researcher Award. He received his PhD in 2008 from MIT. He blogs at DBMS Musings and tweets at @daniel_abadi.
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