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Thoughts on In Memory Databases (Part 1)
Everyone is talking about In Memory at the moment. On blogs, in tweets, in the press, in the Oracle marketing department, in books by SAP employees, even my Violin colleagues… it’s everywhere. What can...
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In Memory Databases: HANA, Exadata X3 and Flash Memory (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog series on In Memory Databases (IMDBs) I talked about the definition of “memory” and found it surprisingly hard to pin down. There was no doubt that Dynamic Random Access...
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Technology Hype Cycles
I had a great idea this week. It started because I wanted to write about Business Intelligence and the benefits of flash memory for Decision Support Systems, but realised that it’s hard to mention...
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More on Exadata X3 “Database In-Memory” (but not by me)
Not a real post – but a recommendation… Kevin Closson, former Performance Architect within Oracle’s Exadata development organisation, has (finally!) written a blog post about the new Exadata X3 model...
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Why In-Memory Computing Needs Flash
You might be tempted to think that In-Memory technologies and flash are concepts which have no common ground. After all, if you can run everything in memory, why worry about the performance of your...
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OOW13: The Future Is Here (Just Don’t Mention “Legacy”)
Last week I attended Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in the stunning city of San Francisco, along with 60,000 other attendees. At times it felt like we’d taken over the entire city, with every street, bus,...
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