Monash Research on Data Warehousing and Analytics http://www.beyeblogs.com/MonashResearch/ Curt Monash of Monash Research highlights issues in data warehousing and analytic technology and applications. en Copyright 2008 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:45:00 -0700 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The many choices in data warehouse technology I'm tracking 20 competitors in data warehouse management technology, counting both appliance and software-only vendors. Since it's tough keeping track of all of them, I've started doing some quick primers. This quick survey of data warehouse technology covered Oracle, Microsoft, IBM (at least in the comment thread), Teradata, Netezza, DATAllegro, Vertica, and many, many others. A little earlier, I did a more general overview of data warehouse appliance (and analytic appliance) myths and realities. These are backed up by dozens of posts about specific data warehouse technology and issues.

But should you care about all this? Well, it depends. If you have under 1 terabyte of user data, no particular performance problems, and not a lot of pain administering and tuning your data warehouse, you may well be fine with what you have. If you have 30 terabytes of user data, or 3 full-time data warehouse DBAs, or users who are afraid to run certain queries because of the response time, you should care a lot.

And while I'm slathering on the links -- in lieu of actually introducing myself, I'll just point you at the Monash Research home page.

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