Cloud Computing and Data Warehousing: Part 4 – IMDB Data Warehouse in a Cloud
In the previous blogs on this topic (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) I suggested that: Shared-nothing is required for an EDW, An EDW is not usually under-utilized, There are difficulties in re-distributing...
View ArticleChaos, Cloud Computing, and the Data Warehouse
David Linthicum suggests here that Shadow IT is not all a bad thing. He references a PricewaterhouseCoopers study that suggests that 30% of all IT spending comes from the business directly… from...
View ArticleCloud DBMS < High Performance DBMS
In my post here I suggested that database computing was becoming a special case of high-performance computing. This trend will bump up against the trend towards cloud computing and the bump will be...
View ArticleOpen Source is Not a Market…
This post is more about the technology business than about technology… but it may be relevant as you try to sort out winners and losers… and this sort of sorting is important if you consider new...
View ArticleThinking About the Pivotal Announcements…
Yesterday I provided a model for how business sees open source as a means to be profitable (here). This is the game Pivotal seems to be playing with their release of Hadoop, Gemfire, HAWQ, and...
View ArticleAn Elastic Shared-Nothing Architecture
In this post we will consider again the implications of implementing a shared-nothing architecture in the cloud. That is, we will start wondering about how to extend a static shared-nothing cluster...
View ArticleCloud-native Computing, Workloads, and Elasticity
Over the next several weeks, I’ll share my perspective of current best practices for big data, which is the term I’ll use to blend thinking about analytic data systems: data lakes, data warehouses,...
View ArticleA Segue from ETL to DB
This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture from the last post, showing storage separated from compute from ETL/ELT to a data warehouse. It...
View ArticleWhat is a Cloud-native Database?
Before this series is complete, I plan on defining in some detail what the various levels of Cloud-nativeness might be to allow readers to classify products based on architecture, not marketing. In...
View ArticleDB Cloud Economics – A Do Over
Here is a better model that demonstrates how cloudy databases can provide dramatic performance increases without increasing costs. Mea culpa… I was going to extend the year-old series of posts on the...
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