Now that I have that long post about analytical databases out of the way, I can get back to thinking about demand generation systems. Research on the new Guide is proceeding nicely (thanks for asking), and should be wrapped up by the end of next week. This means I have to nail down how I’ll present the results. In my last post on the topic, I was thinking in terms of defining user types. But, as I think I wrote in a comment since then, I now believe the best approach is to define several applications and score the vendors in terms of their...
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Looking for Differences in MPP Analytical Databases
Posted on 11:15 by Unknown
“You gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get ahead” sing the strippers in the classic musical Gypsy. The same rule seems to apply to analytical databases: each vendor has its own little twist that makes it unique, if not necessarily better than the competition. This applies even, or maybe especially, to the non-columnar systems that use a massively parallel (“shared-nothing”) architecture to handle very large volumes.You’ll note I didn’t refer to these systems as “appliances”. Most indeed follow the appliance path pioneered by industry leader Netezza,...
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
More on QlikView - Curt Monash Blog
Posted on 07:31 by Unknown
I somehow ended up posting some comments on QlikView technology on Curt Monash's DBMS2 blog. This is actually a more detailed description than I've ever posted here about how I think QlikView works. If you're interested in that sort of thing, do take a lo...
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
More on Vertica
Posted on 09:27 by Unknown
I finally had a conversation with columnar database developer Vertica last week. They have done such an excellent job explaining their system in white papers and other published materials that most of my questions had already been answered. But it’s always good to hear things straight from the source.The briefing pretty much confirmed what I already knew and have written here and elsewhere. Specifically, the two big differentiators of Vertica are its use of sorted data and of shared-nothing (MPP) hardware. Loading the data in a sorted order...
Monday, 4 August 2008
Still More on Assessing Demand Generation Systems
Posted on 09:59 by Unknown
I had a very productive conversation on Friday with Fred Yee, president of ActiveConversion, a demand generation system aimed primarily at small business. As you might have guessed from my recent posts, I was especially interested in his perceptions of the purchase process. In fact, this was so interesting that I didn’t look very closely at the ActiveConversion system. This is no reflection on the product, which seems to be well designed, is very reasonably priced, and has a particularly interesting integration with the Jigsaw online business directory...
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