What does "Scale" even mean in the context of databases? When talking about scaling, people have jumped to the vendor-induced conclusion that: SQL doesn't scaleNoSQL scales It is very obvious that NoSQL vendors make such claims. It has also been interesting that many NoSQL consumers made such claims, even if they probably confused SQL in … Continue reading MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle
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Column Stores: Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks
Prof. Michael Stonebraker is a controversial visionary, who is known for nothing less than Ingres, Postgres, Vertica, Streambase, Illustra, VoltDB, SciDB, besides being a renowned MIT professor. My recent blog post about Stonebraker's talk at the EPFL (host university to Prof. Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala Language and Co-Founder of Typesafe) has triggered a very interesting … Continue reading Column Stores: Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks