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Oracle OpenWorld and the Exadata X3 In-Memory Machine
I attended Oracle OpenWorld last week and of course the main story-line was the Exadata …
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An abundance of riches: HiveServer2 & Templeton
It began when Hortonworks released HDP 1.1 earlier in September. Buried within the documentation was …
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Before you can analyze your Big Data, you first need to access it
I was reading a post on the HBR (Harvard Business Review) blog about "Who's Really …
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MongoDB Seattle 2012, re-capped…
I attended MongoDB Seattle last week mainly to get an insight into the MongoDB market …
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“Traditional Tools Still Part of Big Data”
I admit, I cribbed the title of this post from an article by Stephen Swoyer …
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Data, Data Everywhere…
In the world of Big Data, it seems that everybody is talking about data being …
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BigQuery on the desktop et al…
I noticed that QlikTech announced a partnership with Google. The first outcome of this is …
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Cassandra Summit 2012 retrospective…
Cassandra Summit was just a few of weeks ago. If you couldn't make it, the …
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MapR’s Drill to mimic Google’s Dremel
I thought the annoucement of Drill from MapR was interesting. If you look at the …
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Visualing Oracle OLAP Data with Multiple Products
Last week, Dan Vlamis gave a presentation at the BIWA Virtual Summit on how to …
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Got MapR Hadoop – Get Tableau!
MapR and Tableau have announced they are bringing native connectivity from Tableau to MapR's Hadoop/Hive …
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Some really good insights on connecting to SAP BW
Ethan Jewett wrote a really good post about "SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, BusinessObjects integration getting …
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Anatomy of a High-Performance Hive ODBC 3.52 Driver
MapR has posted Anatomy of a High-Performance Hive ODBC 3.52 Driver on its blog, highlighting …
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Accessing Hadoop and Hive the ODBC way
As Hadoop and Hive implementations continue to grow, accessing and analyzing the data is becoming …
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Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP to be featured at the BIWA Virtual Summit
On August 15th, one of the presentations at the first ever BIWA Virtual Summit will …
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Going geospatial with Tableau and Teradata OLAP
I just tried out the Tableau beta (mentioned previously) that works with the Teradata OLAP …
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MDX query language access to Oracle OLAP option compared to ODBC
Oracle OLAP cubes can be queried using either ODBO and the MDX query language or …
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“The things I could do if I got my hands on all of that data!”
Simba's fiscal year end is July 31. Last week, we had a meeting of our …
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Who’s Who in Hadoop – an Insightful Infographic
Derrick Harris of GigaOM shares an interesting infographic created by Datameer showing who is connected to …
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What’s new in Excel 15 for BI?
Excel 15 is now public and you Chris Webb always does a good job of …
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Beyond Hadoop – even bigger data?
It is interesting how the Big Data world is congregating around Hadoop. Everyone who wants …
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Hadoop Summit 2012 playlist
Just got back from Hadoop Summit 2012. It was an extremely energetic event this year. …
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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 …
