Re:Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in ...
by gaius on Friday October 01, 2010 @02:34AM
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That article is very peculiar
A data warehouse is a separate RDBMS installation that contains copies of data from on-line systems. A data warehouse would not be necessary if RDBMS software worked as advertised. It is merely a $10 million bandaid applied to the limitations of modern computers and RDBMS software.
If you want to do more computation, you require more computers, and this is "insight"?
You might as well say "A level 2 cache would not be necessary if RAM worked as advertised". Duh!
A data warehouse is a separate RDBMS installation that contains copies of data from on-line systems. A data warehouse would not be necessary if RDBMS software worked as advertised. It is merely a $10 million bandaid applied to the limitations of modern computers and RDBMS software.
If you want to do more computation, you require more computers, and this is "insight"?
You might as well say "A level 2 cache would not be necessary if RAM worked as advertised". Duh!