The reaction to the hype of Hadoop is starting to get interesting … Computerworld has a great new article on what the big DB vendors are saying about the mass movement into Hadoop and its complimentary technologies. Very interesting read.
I’ve recently been taking a look at Vertica, a relatively new player in the analytics DBMS world (of which there are now several contenders including some known names like Netezza and Greenplum). Vertica’s flagship product is a MPP database solution that apparently has some huge scalability potential (we keep reading about handfuls of nodes for now, but the research suggests it can scale much further and is rather straightforward to do so).
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