Greenplum Provisioning & Object Storage
Greenplum provisioning via Terraform & access to S3 data via PXF.
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Azure IO Testing
One of the first things we do here at VLDB when we have a yearning to set up a database on a cloud platform is...
Read More →MPP & Cloud – Nothing New Under the Sun
MPP & Cloud - Nothing New Under the Sun The 'shared nothing' or 'massively parallel processing' (MPP) computing architecture is hardly new. The likes of...
Read More →Data Warehouse Appliances – Past, Present and Future
About 10 years ago, around 2003/04, we started to see the real world adoption of the ‘data warehouse appliance’, specifically the Netezza appliance. The Netezza...
Read More →Amazon Redshift Initial Thoughts
As reported on El Reg and elsewhere, Amazon announced the general availability of 'Redshift' a few days ago:http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/What is Amazon Redshift then?Redshift is a licensed...
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