A reader recently left a comment for which my reply was longer than I’d like to leave for a comment so I’m answering it in detail with this blog post. Gabramel writes: Greg, Nice article. I am just reading the Netezza paper. You don’t appear to have debunked the following statement. “Exadata is unable...
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Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin Compared – An Engineer’s Analysis
There seems to be little debate that Oracle’s launch of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the Sun Oracle Database Machine has created buzz in the database marketplace. Apparently there is so much buzz and excitement around these products that two competing vendors, Teradata and Netezza, have both authored publications that contain a significant...
Exadata Snippits From Oracle F4Q09 Earnings Call
Oracle Corporation had its F4Q09 earnings call today and the Exadata comments started right away with the earnings press release: “The Exadata Database Machine is well on its way to being the most successful new product launch in Oracle’s 30 year history,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “Several of Teradata’s largest customers are performance...
Database Customer Benchmarketing Reports
A few weeks ago I read Curt Monash’s report on interpreting the results of data warehouse proofs-of-concept (POCs) and I have to say, I’m quite surprised that this topic hasn’t been covered more by analysts in the data warehousing space. I understand that analysts are not database performance engineers, but where do they think...