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  • Patrick Picard
    Patrick Picard commented on a bookmark 12 Top Big Data Analytics Players June 27, 2012 - 9:55pm
    Great share.   My Appliance Shortlist: Netezza vs. Teradata Exadata (im not impressed by oracle for DW...so im skeptical about exadata...especially if the appliance targets both transactional and analytical) S/W: DataStage vs....
  • Patrick Picard
    Patrick Picard replied on the discussion topic Week 8: Research Report June 25, 2012 - 2:34pm
    Netezza for analytics is a great research topic. It uses Postgres as the backend db. Netezza is a full frame of blades that process the queries in a MPP fashion. Interestingly, Netezza does not use indexes, nor partitioning :)
  • Patrick Picard
    Patrick Picard replied on the discussion topic Week 8: Research Report June 24, 2012 - 2:25pm
    Hi Dickson, I would not go as far as saying that RDBMS have issues scaling out because clustering options exists in most platforms. Replication can be used to keep slaves in sync. Decentralizing tables as you mentioned can be done for distributing...