An update on Google BigQuery…
The excitment this week surrounding Google I/O 2012 reminded me of last year when BigQuery …
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Some insight on underlying technology used by Kognitio
Stephen Swoyer at TDWI writes about “Tech Talk: Big Data Meets Big Density“. In this …
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An amusing take on Big Data databases – funny
A friend sent this to me and I thought it was quite amusing. This little …
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Kognitio announces Analytics on Hadoop
Kognitio just announced integration with Hadoop. According to their press release: “an external tables feature …
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Teradata Aster announces SQL-H for SQL access to Hadoop
Teradata Aster today announced SQL-H for SQL access to Hadoop. You can read more here: …
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Some interesting things I learned from Teradata about what data to put in-memory
I was at an event for Teradata Partners this past week and listening to people …
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A quick video on Teradata OLAP Connector by Sam Tawfik
If you are interested, the link is: Sam Tawfik @ Teradata talks about Teradata OLAP …
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Tableau connects to Teradata OLAP (formerly called TBIO)
I just heard that Tableau now has a Beta where they work with the Teradata …
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Oracle Exalytics vs SAP HANA written by a GreenPlum guy
A friend forwarded me a link to an interesting blog. In “Exalytics vs. HANA: What …
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Donald Feinberg and Vishal Sikka explain about in-memory and SAP HANA
A couple of weeks ago, I attended SAP Sapphire 2012. It was a good conference …
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Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)
I never heard of this before but it makes some sense… Big Data as a …
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In-memory and big data – Kognitio style
I was reading an interesting article by Stephen Swoyer at TDWI where he writes about …
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See Simba Hive ODBC Connector in action
I finally had some time to put together a demo of the Simba Hive ODBC …
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Tableau support for SAP BW using MDX Query Language and OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) interface
We knew Tableau was working on supporting SAP BW using the MDX Query Language and …
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We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day?!?!?
Wow! Larry Bettino writes that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day in …
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Simba to Present Best Practices for Direct BI Analytics Connectivity to Oracle OLAP at COLLABORATE 12 Conference
The COLLABORATE 12 Conference is a technology and applications forum for the Oracle community, created …
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Bissantz Webinar: Ad-hoc Analysis and Data-Dense Visualization on Your Data
Simba’s partner Bissantz & Company will be hosting a Webinar on April 25 and 26, …
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Hive grows up: New HiveServer2 API proposed
Over the Easter weekend, Hive took a big step forward with a new API: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveServer2+Thrift+API …
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Growing support for in-database OLAP
Gartner talks a lot about in-database analytics in their research. At Simba, our analytics business …
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The future of ODBC, OLE DB, and OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO)
With Simba being the leader in data access and data analytics and having worked on …
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Strata 2012 (Santa Clara) Playlist
It’s been a month since Strata 2012 and I’ve finally dug myself out of my …
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Simba supports Big Data with ODBC driver for Hadoop/Hive
Ok everyone, here is a shameful promotional post: We have an ODBC driver for Hive …
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Arcplan supports SAP HANA
I am at the arcPlatform partner conference for arcplan this week. Roland Hoelscher just gave …
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How RainStor compresses data and how it integrates with Hadoop
Robin Bloor wrote a nice post explaining how RainStor compresses data using tree structures and …
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More Big Data – an interesting analysis of HortonWorks
Doug Henschen at InformationWeek wrote an interesting analysis of HortonWorks and why it is generating …
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Another interesting day at Strata looking at the world of Big Data
A very interesting first full day of Strata. The next Strata in NY is Oct …
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The Big Data Index and other news from Strata
I am attending the Strata conference this week and today was the JumpStart day. A couple …
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Follow the money… $50 Billion for Big Data?!?!?
Wow! I was reading on Forbes that Big Data Market will be worth $50 billion …
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The easy way to build a custom ODBC driver
Simba is in the business of helping companies quickly and easily build ODBC drivers for …
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Trends Shaping Next-Gen BI and Analytics
I was reading an interesting piece from George Mathew at Alteryx entitled “5 Macro Trends …
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Excel 2007 and SAP HANA – a how to document
We just published a how to document for Connecting Excel 2007 directly to SAP HANA. …
Amazon’s new Big Data service – DynamoDB
Jim Ericson at Information Management writes about DynamoDB – Amazon’s new Big Data service here: …
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Big Data in 2012 – User Friendly
I was reading an interesting post by Harlan Smith at Hitachi about Big Data Analytics: …
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Understanding the Oracle-Cloudera Big Data offering…
The big news of the day is likely Oracle’s announcement of the specifics of their …
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Microsoft Isotope CTP ultra-slick…
The Christmas and New Year season is finally passed. Or, at least, the turkey is …
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Tableau connects to SAP BW powered by HANA using MDX query language
This past week, SAP and Tableau announced that you can use Tableau to visualize your …
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Using Hive from ODBC
Hadoop and Hive are definitely on everyone’s mind these days. Whenever I see the words …
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Is it that easy? “Seven Steps to Accounting Nirvana with HANA”
I was reading a blog post on SDN by Gregory Misiorek entitled “Seven Steps to …
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Interesting Gartner Report on SAP HANA
SAP is betting the company on their next generation HANA technology and it is interesting …
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Making MapReduce easy to use
Interesting article at Forbes by Dan Woods where he talks to Tasso Argyros from Teradata …
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ODBC, Business Intelligence, and Big Data
The recent announcements by Microsoft about Big Data are very good news for those of …
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Top 12 Players in Big Data Analytics
Doug Henschen at Information Week has posted his list of the top 12 players in …
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Using Excel on SAP HANA… the inside scoop from SAP’s Thomas Zurek
Thomas Zurek, VP for R&D of SAP BW and analytic parts of SAP HANA, just …
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Microsoft announces support for ODBC on Linux
Yes, you read the title correctly. Microsoft is about to release a Linux ODBC driver …
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ODBC is the gateway to Big Data
I am at the Microsoft SQL Server PASS conference this week and the big news …
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ODBC is the gateway to the Cloud
It’s interesting that it is SQL Azure that is pushing Microsoft to invest more in …
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Follow up from Teradata Partners
A good recap of Teradata’s announcements at the recent Teradata Partners conference can be found …
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Steve Jobs–Architect of Big Data
The passing of Steve Jobs the day after the iPhone 4S launch under the symbolic …
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Strata September Playlists
So I had a few moments yesterday to pull together playlists for the recent Strata …
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Data Science and Visualization at Strata…
Data Science So the second Strata conference has came and gone. (Actually, the event consists …
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OLAP sessions at Teradata Partners conference
I will be at the Teradata Partners User Conference next week in San Diego and …
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Going to Oracle OpenWorld? Use Oracle OLAP?
Simba Technologies and Vlamis Software Solutions are throwing a special OpenWorld 2011 reception for current …
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Teradata announcement on Teradata Columnar
Here is Teradata’s official announcement of Teradata Columnar. Definitely worth reading. I will be at …
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Strata 2011
Some of you may know I’ve been working on a few ideas in the last …
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My adventures at SAP TechEd and Sybase TechWave
I was only briefly at SAP TechEd/Sybase TechWave this week. The biggest thing for me …
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Vectorsoft ODBC Driver Performance Optimization
Vectorsoft has been a long-time Simba customer. They have an interesting product called CONZEPT 16 …
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More about Microsoft’s move back to ODBC standard
Kurt Mackie at Redmondmag.com wrote more about Microsoft Shifting To ODBC for SQL Server. The …
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More about Microsoft’s plans to consolidate around ODBC and deprecate OLE DB
Microsoft’s recent announcement that they would focus more on ODBC and deprecate OLE DB has …
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Microsoft endorses ODBC over OLE DB
Wow! About a decade and a half ago, Microsoft said that OLE DB would be …
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Teradata Database adds Columnar
Teradata has been innovating a lot and in Teradata 14, they will add Teradata Columnar. …
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Train-of-Thought Analytics means sub-20-second consistent query times no matter what query you do
Stephen Swoyer from TDWI recently wrote about Kognitio Pablo and how “the OLAP status quo …
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ODBC and JDBC for the Cloud
I was talking to one of our customers recently that has a solution that lives …
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Starbucks uses Teradata TBIO for Product Affinity Analysis
One of the presentations at the 2011 Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo this year is …
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Latest on what Kognitio is doing
Kognitio launched the Pablo product last week and got a nice write up by Doug …
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Sparklines help create meaningful dashboards with Excel
Microsoft has made many improvements to the BI features of Excel with its most recent …
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Some insight into what HP and Vertica are doing
Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote an interesting article giving some insight into what is happening …
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Extreme OLAP on Big Data
Today, Kognitio announced the release of version 1 of Pablo. Pablo is basically an OLAP …
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ODTUG KScope 2011 Conference and Excel Pivot Tables with Oracle OLAP
I just got back last week from the ODTUG KScope 2011 Conference and wanted to post …
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Teradata vs Oracle Exadata
I hear a lot of comparisons between between Teradata and Oracle Exadata. There is a …
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More about the direction and impact of SAP HANA… from an insider…
SAP keeps ratcheting up the marketing about HANA. While there has been a lot written, …
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The future of SAP BW – What does HANA mean for BW and BWA?
Simba has been working with SAP for some time on HANA. We have helped SAP …
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Oracle Gives You a Voice for What Happens at OpenWorld 2011
OpenWorld session voting is now open until this Sunday, June 19th. Oracle is allowing you …
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In-database analytics by Kognitio
Kognitio has an interesting session lined up on July 6-7 at Canary Wharf in London …
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Teradata in the Apple iCloud – definitely looks like it
Last week when Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iCloud, the pictures of the servers behind …
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Simba Survey on Excel BI Usage Extended Until ODTUG Conference
Simba has been conducting a survey on how pervasively enterprises use Excel for BI. We’re …
