… and points beyond

Neat data viz project.
Video Demonstration and Download Page

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The ideas in this paper will be incorporated into the Vertica database product. And unfortunately it won’t be open source. At least that’s what one company employee commented on Slashdot.
In the same way that RAID design options (e.g. 1, 5 and 10) can accommodate multiple drive failures, the Vertica system will distribute the same slice [...]

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Started by a major contributor to the Ingres and Postgres projects, Vertica is implementing a read-optimized database that is an excellent fit for the data warehouse world. Given the founder’s support of open-source, I expect this company will follow the hybrid commercial/FOSS model of MySQL and others. Some core design features include highly compact storage, [...]

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Master Foo Defines Enterprise Data

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I’m a bit of a latecomer to the Singularity concept. As I understand it, the singularity occurs when technological evolution is able to reproduce human intelligence, likely by simulating a human brain. It must happen, but when? Kurzweil gives a date of 2045 and gives a strong justification. My favorite part is right after that [...]

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