http://www.texttechnologies.com/2007/01/30/worst-url-pun-ever/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2007/01/30/worst-url-pun-ever/#comment-3599 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » It’s a good week for puns … Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:47:15 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2007/01/30/worst-url-pun-ever/#comment-3599 [...] … unless you think that is inherently an oxymoron. I thought I was doing well catching and expanding on a clever pop culture reference. But the folks at columnar DBMS start-up Vertica Systems may have topped that with their slogan [...] [...] … unless you think that is inherently an oxymoron. I thought I was doing well catching and expanding on a clever pop culture reference. But the folks at columnar DBMS start-up Vertica Systems may have topped that with their slogan [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2007/01/30/worst-url-pun-ever/#comment-3541 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Enterprise-specific web search: High-end web search/mining appliances? Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:37:29 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2007/01/30/worst-url-pun-ever/#comment-3541 [...] 2. The relational world gives very mixed signals as to how much these MPP/shared-nothing products benefit from specialized hardware. There’s certainly a consensus that customers at least want preconfigured hardware. But beyond that it gets confusing. Teradata has specialized networking. IBM is going to preconfigured generic hardware, and also mumbles about a specialized data filtering chip. Netezza has a very custom system based on FPGAs. DATallegro loves its custom Infiniband networking add-ons, but mumbles about going to standard hardware. Greenplum and Kognitio are on standard hardware, although Greenplum focuses on a quasi-appliance through Sun. (if my memory is correctly, Greenplum actually boasts at least one text-indexing customer, namely O’Reilly.) [...] [...] 2. The relational world gives very mixed signals as to how much these MPP/shared-nothing products benefit from specialized hardware. There’s certainly a consensus that customers at least want preconfigured hardware. But beyond that it gets confusing. Teradata has specialized networking. IBM is going to preconfigured generic hardware, and also mumbles about a specialized data filtering chip. Netezza has a very custom system based on FPGAs. DATallegro loves its custom Infiniband networking add-ons, but mumbles about going to standard hardware. Greenplum and Kognitio are on standard hardware, although Greenplum focuses on a quasi-appliance through Sun. (if my memory is correctly, Greenplum actually boasts at least one text-indexing customer, namely O’Reilly.) [...]

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