H-store: One Size Fits All An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone in RDBMS!

H-store: One Size Fits All An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone in RDBMS!

  Michael Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES, and the federated data system, Mariposa. All three prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. He is the founder of three successful Silicon Valley startups,…

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GPU and SQL: Can GPU be used for SQL processing

GPU and SQL: Can GPU be used for SQL processing

A topic left unexamined in this paper is the possibility of breaking up a data set and running a query concurrently on multiple GPUs. Though there would certainly be coordination overhead, it is very likely that SQL queries could be further accelerated with such a con guration. Consider the NVIDIA Tesla S1070, a server product which contains 4 Tesla GPUs. This machine has a combined GPU throughput of 408 GB/sec, 960 streaming multiprocessors, and a…

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What is HANA? High Performance Analytic Appliance from SAP.

What is HANA? High Performance Analytic Appliance from SAP.

Here is two important presentations that would make it clear for novice or advanced colleagues. What is SAP HANA? It is a real mile stone in “in-memory computing“. Introduction to HANA in-memory from SAP It is important to understand also CEP Complex Event Processing because it will make our life easier in realizing where we are headed for future application landscape from SAP. Complex Event Prosessing   View more presentations from ugur candan

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Les Hayman Keynote on SAP Forum 2008 Istanbul

Les Hayman Keynote on SAP Forum 2008 Istanbul

I am sure this will be a suprise for Les Hayman. It was an honour hosting you for our keynote in Istanbul. I know it had been quite sometime until then but after listening to your keynote I just noticed that all of the observations and comments remain valid. Even getting more and more important. Some quotes: Things have moved faster than we had anticipated. 50 years before technology followed business need – Today we…

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