Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale

Re:Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale by srigan on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @03:29PM (#12354596)

isn't this already implemented in Datawarehouse appliances like Netezza (now part of IBM), which targeted solving the problem of analytical queries on huge sets of data??

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Re:Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale by liprais on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @10:22PM (#12356609)

I guess Baidu hired some former Netezza guys and they decided to copy/steal from their former company to meet with their KPIs,which is quite common here in China

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Re:Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale by weq on Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:15AM (#12357759)

Ahh yes, my old boss was next door neighbours with the Netezza CEO back in the early days circa '06. I worked a little with the platform back then, and i saw this article and was like, thats they they did! Back then, u had to shard ur database to take advantage of the parrallel processing, not sure how far its come now.

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