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  • Beyond Hadoop – even bigger data?

    Beyond Hadoop – even bigger data?

    July 16, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    It is interesting how the Big Data world is congregating around Hadoop.  Everyone who wants …

  • Hadoop Summit 2012 playlist

    Hadoop Summit 2012 playlist

    July 6, 2012 by George Chow

    Just got back from Hadoop Summit 2012. It was an extremely energetic event this year. …

  • An update on Google BigQuery…

    An update on Google BigQuery…

    June 29, 2012 by George Chow

    The excitment this week surrounding Google I/O 2012 reminded me of last year when BigQuery …

  • Some insight on underlying technology used by Kognitio

    Some insight on underlying technology used by Kognitio

    June 17, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Stephen Swoyer at TDWI writes about “Tech Talk: Big Data Meets Big Density“.  In this …

  • An amusing take on Big Data databases – funny

    An amusing take on Big Data databases – funny

    June 15, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    A friend sent this to me and I thought it was quite amusing. This little …

  • Kognitio announces Analytics on Hadoop

    Kognitio announces Analytics on Hadoop

    June 14, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Kognitio just announced integration with Hadoop.  According to their press release: “an external tables feature …

  • Teradata Aster announces SQL-H for SQL access to Hadoop

    Teradata Aster announces SQL-H for SQL access to Hadoop

    June 12, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Teradata Aster today announced SQL-H for SQL access to Hadoop.  You can read more here: …

  • Some interesting things I learned from Teradata about what data to put in-memory

    Some interesting things I learned from Teradata about what data to put in-memory

    June 9, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I was at an event for Teradata Partners this past week and listening to people …

  • A quick video on Teradata OLAP Connector by Sam Tawfik

    A quick video on Teradata OLAP Connector by Sam Tawfik

    June 6, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    If you are interested, the link is: Sam Tawfik @ Teradata talks about Teradata OLAP …

  • Tableau connects to Teradata OLAP (formerly called TBIO)

    Tableau connects to Teradata OLAP (formerly called TBIO)

    June 5, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I just heard that Tableau now has a Beta where they work with the Teradata …

  • Oracle Exalytics vs SAP HANA written by a GreenPlum guy

    Oracle Exalytics vs SAP HANA written by a GreenPlum guy

    June 4, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    A friend forwarded me a link to an interesting blog.  In “Exalytics vs. HANA: What …

  • Donald Feinberg and Vishal Sikka explain about in-memory and SAP HANA

    Donald Feinberg and Vishal Sikka explain about in-memory and SAP HANA

    May 29, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    A couple of weeks ago, I attended SAP Sapphire 2012. It was a good conference …

  • Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)

    Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)

    May 25, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I never heard of this before but it makes some sense… Big Data as a …

  • In-memory and big data – Kognitio style

    In-memory and big data – Kognitio style

    May 23, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading an interesting article by Stephen Swoyer at TDWI where he writes about …

  • See Simba Hive ODBC Connector in action

    See Simba Hive ODBC Connector in action

    May 1, 2012 by George Chow

    I finally had some time to put together a demo of the Simba Hive ODBC …

  • Tableau support for SAP BW using MDX Query Language and OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) interface

    Tableau support for SAP BW using MDX Query Language and OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) interface

    May 1, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    We knew Tableau was working on supporting SAP BW using the MDX Query Language and …

  • We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day?!?!?

    We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day?!?!?

    April 26, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Wow!  Larry Bettino writes that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day in …

  • Simba to Present Best Practices for Direct BI Analytics Connectivity to Oracle OLAP at COLLABORATE 12 Conference

    Simba to Present Best Practices for Direct BI Analytics Connectivity to Oracle OLAP at COLLABORATE 12 Conference

    April 24, 2012 by Simba Marketing

    The COLLABORATE 12 Conference is a technology and applications forum for the Oracle community, created …

  • Bissantz Webinar: Ad-hoc Analysis and Data-Dense Visualization on Your Data

    Bissantz Webinar: Ad-hoc Analysis and Data-Dense Visualization on Your Data

    April 19, 2012 by Simba Marketing

    Simba’s partner Bissantz & Company will be hosting a Webinar on April 25 and 26, …

  • Hive grows up: New HiveServer2 API proposed

    Hive grows up: New HiveServer2 API proposed

    April 12, 2012 by George Chow

    Over the Easter weekend, Hive took a big step forward with a new API: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveServer2+Thrift+API …

  • Growing support for in-database OLAP

    Growing support for in-database OLAP

    April 6, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Gartner talks a lot about in-database analytics in their research. At Simba, our analytics business …

  • The future of ODBC, OLE DB, and OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO)

    The future of ODBC, OLE DB, and OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO)

    April 4, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    With Simba being the leader in data access and data analytics and having worked on …

  • Strata 2012 (Santa Clara) Playlist

    Strata 2012 (Santa Clara) Playlist

    March 29, 2012 by George Chow

    It’s been a month since Strata 2012 and I’ve finally dug myself out of my …

  • Simba supports Big Data with ODBC driver for Hadoop/Hive

    Simba supports Big Data with ODBC driver for Hadoop/Hive

    March 22, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Ok everyone, here is a shameful promotional post: We have an ODBC driver for Hive …

  • Arcplan supports SAP HANA

    Arcplan supports SAP HANA

    March 16, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I am at the arcPlatform partner conference for arcplan this week.  Roland Hoelscher just gave …

  • How RainStor compresses data and how it integrates with Hadoop

    How RainStor compresses data and how it integrates with Hadoop

    March 13, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Robin Bloor wrote a nice post explaining how RainStor compresses data using tree structures and …

  • More Big Data – an interesting analysis of HortonWorks

    More Big Data – an interesting analysis of HortonWorks

    March 1, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Doug Henschen at InformationWeek wrote an interesting analysis of HortonWorks and why it is generating …

  • Another interesting day at Strata looking at the world of Big Data

    Another interesting day at Strata looking at the world of Big Data

    February 29, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    A very interesting first full day of Strata. The next Strata in NY is Oct …

  • The Big Data Index and other news from Strata

    The Big Data Index and other news from Strata

    February 28, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I am attending the Strata conference this week and today was the JumpStart day.  A couple …

  • Follow the money… $50 Billion for Big Data?!?!?

    Follow the money… $50 Billion for Big Data?!?!?

    February 26, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Wow!  I was reading on Forbes that Big Data Market will be worth $50 billion …

  • The easy way to build a custom ODBC driver

    The easy way to build a custom ODBC driver

    February 14, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Simba is in the business of helping companies quickly and easily build ODBC drivers for …

  • Trends Shaping Next-Gen BI and Analytics

    Trends Shaping Next-Gen BI and Analytics

    February 9, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading an interesting piece from George Mathew at Alteryx entitled “5 Macro Trends …

  • Excel 2007 and SAP HANA – a how to document

    Excel 2007 and SAP HANA – a how to document

    February 4, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    We just published a how to document for Connecting Excel 2007 directly to SAP HANA.  …

  • Amazon’s new Big Data service – DynamoDB

    Amazon’s new Big Data service – DynamoDB

    January 22, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    Jim Ericson at Information Management writes about DynamoDB – Amazon’s new Big Data service here: …

  • Big Data in 2012 – User Friendly

    Big Data in 2012 – User Friendly

    January 13, 2012 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading an interesting post by Harlan Smith at Hitachi about Big Data Analytics: …

  • Understanding the Oracle-Cloudera Big Data offering…

    Understanding the Oracle-Cloudera Big Data offering…

    January 10, 2012 by George Chow

    The big news of the day is likely Oracle’s announcement of the specifics of their …

  • Microsoft Isotope CTP ultra-slick…

    Microsoft Isotope CTP ultra-slick…

    January 2, 2012 by George Chow

    The Christmas and New Year season is finally passed. Or, at least, the turkey is …

  • Tableau connects to SAP BW powered by HANA using MDX query language

    Tableau connects to SAP BW powered by HANA using MDX query language

    December 17, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    This past week, SAP and Tableau announced that you can use Tableau to visualize your …

  • Using Hive from ODBC

    Using Hive from ODBC

    December 12, 2011 by George Chow

    Hadoop and Hive are definitely on everyone’s mind these days. Whenever I see the words …

  • Is it that easy?  “Seven Steps to Accounting Nirvana with HANA”

    Is it that easy? “Seven Steps to Accounting Nirvana with HANA”

    December 3, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading a blog post on SDN by Gregory Misiorek entitled “Seven Steps to …

  • Interesting Gartner Report on SAP HANA

    Interesting Gartner Report on SAP HANA

    November 27, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    SAP is betting the company on their next generation HANA technology and it is interesting …

  • Making MapReduce easy to use

    Making MapReduce easy to use

    November 6, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Interesting article at Forbes by Dan Woods where he talks to Tasso Argyros from Teradata …

  • ODBC, Business Intelligence, and Big Data

    ODBC, Business Intelligence, and Big Data

    October 26, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    The recent announcements by Microsoft about Big Data are very good news for those of …

  • Top 12 Players in Big Data Analytics

    Top 12 Players in Big Data Analytics

    October 19, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Doug Henschen at Information Week has posted his list of the top 12 players in …

  • Using Excel on SAP HANA… the inside scoop from SAP’s Thomas Zurek

    Using Excel on SAP HANA… the inside scoop from SAP’s Thomas Zurek

    October 18, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Thomas Zurek, VP for R&D of SAP BW and analytic parts of SAP HANA, just …

  • Microsoft announces support for ODBC on Linux

    Microsoft announces support for ODBC on Linux

    October 14, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Yes, you read the title correctly.  Microsoft is about to release a Linux ODBC driver …

  • ODBC is the gateway to Big Data

    ODBC is the gateway to Big Data

    October 12, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I am at the Microsoft SQL Server PASS conference this week and the big news …

  • ODBC is the gateway to the Cloud

    ODBC is the gateway to the Cloud

    October 11, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    It’s interesting that it is SQL Azure that is pushing Microsoft to invest more in …

  • Follow up from Teradata Partners

    Follow up from Teradata Partners

    October 8, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    A good recap of Teradata’s announcements at the recent Teradata Partners conference can be found …

  • Steve Jobs–Architect of Big Data

    Steve Jobs–Architect of Big Data

    October 6, 2011 by George Chow

    The passing of Steve Jobs the day after the iPhone 4S launch under the symbolic …

  • Strata September Playlists

    Strata September Playlists

    October 4, 2011 by George Chow

    So I had a few moments yesterday to pull together playlists for the recent Strata …

  • Data Science and Visualization at Strata…

    Data Science and Visualization at Strata…

    September 30, 2011 by George Chow

    Data Science So the second Strata conference has came and gone. (Actually, the event consists …

  • OLAP sessions at Teradata Partners conference

    OLAP sessions at Teradata Partners conference

    September 27, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I will be at the Teradata Partners User Conference next week in San Diego and …

  • Going to Oracle OpenWorld?  Use Oracle OLAP?

    Going to Oracle OpenWorld? Use Oracle OLAP?

    September 26, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    Simba Technologies and Vlamis Software Solutions are throwing a special OpenWorld 2011 reception for current …

  • Teradata announcement on Teradata Columnar

    Teradata announcement on Teradata Columnar

    September 22, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Here is Teradata’s official announcement of Teradata Columnar.  Definitely worth reading.  I will be at …

  • Strata 2011

    Strata 2011

    September 19, 2011 by George Chow

    Some of you may know I’ve been working on a few ideas in the last …

  • My adventures at SAP TechEd and Sybase TechWave

    My adventures at SAP TechEd and Sybase TechWave

    September 16, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I was only briefly at SAP TechEd/Sybase TechWave this week. The biggest thing for me …

  • Vectorsoft ODBC Driver Performance Optimization

    Vectorsoft ODBC Driver Performance Optimization

    September 7, 2011 by Jerry Wu

    Vectorsoft has been a long-time Simba customer. They have an interesting product called CONZEPT 16 …

  • More about Microsoft’s move back to ODBC standard

    More about Microsoft’s move back to ODBC standard

    September 7, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Kurt Mackie at Redmondmag.com wrote more about Microsoft Shifting To ODBC for SQL Server.  The …

  • More about Microsoft’s plans to consolidate around ODBC and deprecate OLE DB

    More about Microsoft’s plans to consolidate around ODBC and deprecate OLE DB

    September 1, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Microsoft’s recent announcement that they would focus more on ODBC and deprecate OLE DB has …

  • Microsoft endorses ODBC over OLE DB

    Microsoft endorses ODBC over OLE DB

    August 30, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Wow!  About a decade and a half ago, Microsoft said that OLE DB would be …

  • Teradata Database adds Columnar

    Teradata Database adds Columnar

    August 17, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Teradata has been innovating a lot and in Teradata 14, they will add Teradata Columnar.  …

  • Train-of-Thought Analytics means sub-20-second consistent query times no matter what query you do

    Train-of-Thought Analytics means sub-20-second consistent query times no matter what query you do

    July 20, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Stephen Swoyer from TDWI recently wrote about Kognitio Pablo and how “the OLAP status quo …

  • ODBC and JDBC for the Cloud

    ODBC and JDBC for the Cloud

    July 13, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I was talking to one of our customers recently that has a solution that lives …

  • Starbucks uses Teradata TBIO for Product Affinity Analysis

    Starbucks uses Teradata TBIO for Product Affinity Analysis

    July 12, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    One of the presentations at the 2011 Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo this year is …

  • Latest on what Kognitio is doing

    Latest on what Kognitio is doing

    July 11, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Kognitio launched the Pablo product last week and got a nice write up by Doug …

  • Sparklines help create meaningful dashboards with Excel

    Sparklines help create meaningful dashboards with Excel

    July 8, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    Microsoft has made many improvements to the BI features of Excel with its most recent …

  • Some insight into what HP and Vertica are doing

    Some insight into what HP and Vertica are doing

    July 8, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote an interesting article giving some insight into what is happening …

  • Extreme OLAP on Big Data

    Extreme OLAP on Big Data

    July 7, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Today, Kognitio announced the release of version 1 of Pablo.  Pablo is basically an OLAP …

  • ODTUG KScope 2011 Conference and Excel Pivot Tables with Oracle OLAP

    ODTUG KScope 2011 Conference and Excel Pivot Tables with Oracle OLAP

    July 6, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I just got back last week from the ODTUG KScope 2011 Conference and wanted to post …

  • Teradata vs Oracle Exadata

    Teradata vs Oracle Exadata

    July 5, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I hear a lot of comparisons between between Teradata and Oracle Exadata.  There is a …

  • More about the direction and impact of SAP HANA… from an insider…

    More about the direction and impact of SAP HANA… from an insider…

    June 27, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    SAP keeps ratcheting up the marketing about HANA.  While there has been a lot written, …

  • The future of SAP BW – What does HANA mean for BW and BWA?

    The future of SAP BW – What does HANA mean for BW and BWA?

    June 23, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Simba has been working with SAP for some time on HANA.  We have helped SAP …

  • Oracle Gives You a Voice for What Happens at OpenWorld 2011

    Oracle Gives You a Voice for What Happens at OpenWorld 2011

    June 17, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    OpenWorld session voting is now open until this Sunday, June 19th.  Oracle is allowing you …

  • In-database analytics by Kognitio

    In-database analytics by Kognitio

    June 15, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Kognitio has an interesting session lined up on July 6-7 at Canary Wharf in London …

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