Over the weekend I have revisited Tableau, enjoyed some success with MonetDB, tried to turn MySQL into a hundred million row data warehouse, been underwhelmed with Firebird, installed Greenplum and spent many frustrated hours with Talend Open Studio, Pentaho Kettle and Jitterbit.
Of course, I could just buy QlikView, but what can be done for less [...]
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Low-Cost Data Analysis & Visualization: It’s Getting Better All The Time
September 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: MPP · QlikView · Tableau · Vertica · business intelligence · data warehouse · database · emerging technology · interactive analysis · visualization
Does Processor Speed Still Matter?
November 25th, 2007 · No Comments
I would have said no until the release of so many multi-core processors. Now they have swarmed the Top 500 supercomputer list. But not every supercomputer has a cluster design because not every challenge is solved faster on a cluster. Will there continue to be custom-designed high-performance systems or will clusters take over completely? At [...]
Tags: MPP · supercomputer