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EMC Data Science Series
I’ve always considered it dangerous when those sales types go out on the road unaccompanied…and I’ve been proven right once again! This time I’ve been volunteered for a speaking engagement at the...
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Well, that was quite a week….despite following Prof. Marcus du Sautoy onto the stage at the EMC Data Science Series event in London, our presentation covering Search Science was well received. Moscow,...
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
The annual “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems” was published last week. Like many folk out there, I am as interested in what the industry analysts make of the report...
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Cloudera Partnership
So, after 20 years of building applications on massively parallel processing (MPP) shared-nothing database architectures, we thought we’d better get in on this new fangled ‘big data’ bandwagon! As a...
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Microsoft to Buy Nokia Mobile Phone Division
Microsoft to Buy Nokia Mobile Phone Division Some might say it was inevitable, and we would agree, but Microsoft has finally plonked down a big bag of cash (£4.6bn actually ) to buy Nokia‘s mobile...
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VLDB 2013 Round Up
It’s that time of year again between Xmas and New Year when thoughts turn to what Q1 has in store. Afore we turn to that, let’s have a look back at 2013. VLDB Digital Here at VLDB HQ we made a decision...
View ArticleParallel Processing Supermarket Analogy
Team VLDB were delighted to attend the Pivotal UK launch event in London on Wednesday evening this week. The champagne, wine and beer certainly flowed. We’re guessing not everybody made their morning...
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Greenplum Community Edition (SNE) V4 for OSX
VLDB’s own demo Greenplum MPP system is currently running v3.x of the Greenplum DBMS software, which we had planned to upgrade at some point soon. Pesky client projects always seem to get in the way...
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Greenplum Performance Monitor
Following the recent installation of Greenplum Community Edition v4 on my Mac, I decided to give the Greenplum Performance Monitor a spin. The install guide highlights are as follows: gpperfmon_install...
View ArticleLoading Greenplum From An External Table
Ok, we’ve got Greenplum up and running and now we want to load some data. There are several methods available, of which we’ll look at external tables. This demo will load a simple file containing 2...
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