Category: database
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Gaming, Data, and Behaviour
From time spent in certain game modes, to player damage with weapons, and how players move around maps, video game developers have had access to a wide range of telemetry data for years now. They’ve been using this data to refine the core feedback loops they use to keep players engaged and coming back for…
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Postgres Conf 2018 Musings
Yours truly attended the Postgres Conf in Jersey City last week with my esteemed colleague Richard Jackson. It was quite a blast, to say the least…apart from not getting home until late Saturday afternoon. Ho hum. PostgreSQL Re-Cap PostgreSQL, or Postgres for short, is an open source database first developed as a follow-on from Ingres. The Postgres…
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TPCH Database Benchmarking
Should we take any notice of TPC benchmarks?
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MPP & Cloud – Nothing New Under the Sun
MPP & Cloud – Nothing New Under the Sun The ‘shared nothing‘ or ‘massively parallel processing‘ (MPP) computing architecture is hardly new. The likes of Teradata, Netezza and Pivotal Greenplum have been offering MPP technology going back as far as the 1980’s (well, Teradata has, the others came along in the early 2000’s). Similarly, cloud…
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Data Warehouse Application Migration
The last 12 months or so has seen a lot of ‘Big Data’ POCs being initiated in our world. The most frequent objective from both the customer side and the Hadoop vendors that we talk to seems to be ‘data warehouse application migration’ or ‘offloading’. So what do we mean by ‘offloading’, why is it…
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Teradata Indexes – primary index (PI) deep dive
Whilst at the Teradata Partners 2011 show last October we bought several copies of a book on Teradata indexes called ‘Teradata Database Index Essentials’, written by Alison Torres of Teradata, no less. This book on Teradata indexes even has it’s own web site at http://www.teradataindexes.com/. So, predictably, we raced each other to read the Teradata…
