DBMS Musings

I recently came across a paper entitled “ MapReduce Online” written by Tyson Condie , Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joe Hellerstein , Khaled ...

I checked Curt Monash’s blog today (as I do on a somewhat daily basis) and saw a new post announcing Greenplum’s new column-oriented storage...

I was chatting with Raj Cherabuddi, founder of Kickfire recently about Kickfire’s approach to parallelism, and I think that some of the pro...

There has been a lot of talk recently about hybrid column-store/row-store database systems. This is likely due to many announcements along t...

Ever since Netezza became a public company, every once and a while someone tries to start a rumor that Netezza is on the verge of being acqu...

It's fairly unusual to see a company openly attack a competitor in a public forum. I don't know the exact reason, but I presume it h...

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 ...