Now my summer holidays are done, I want to publish the list of vendors or technologies active in the Big Data space. I have organized them following the five Big Data steps. You’ll find a full description of each Big Data step in my No SQL, No...
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After No SQL, No Hadoop!
Not Only SQL, Not Only Hadoop…I think the Big Data topic is changing, from hype to some reality. A few months ago, many of my customers were thinking of Big Data as something designed only for large internet companies like Google, Yahoo,...
Read moreWhy SAP HANA is a breakthrough technology
I have been working on SAP HANA for long time. First call with SAP’s R&D was in 2010, when HANA was yet to be named and they were still calling it Hasso DB (for Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP). Now I come to think of it, even if...
Read moreMegaUpload, an Information Management cloud
This post has not been written to discuss the legal aspects of the recent MegaUpload events. This post’s goal is presenting a high level and technical point of view of how MegaUpload was designed.As you know, MegaUpload was a collection of websites...
Read moreWhat is Hadoop?
(or Hadoop for dummy architects like me)I’m sure you’ve heard about Big Data. If not, I recommend you my blog post “What is Big Data ?”The most well known technology used for Big Data is Hadoop. It is used by Yahoo, eBay, LinkedIn and...
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2011 has been a year rich with new trends in the Business Intelligence (BI) space some of which have rocketed this year (#1): Mobile BI: Adapting analytic tools to mobile characteristics (always worn, rarely off, sometimes geographically...
Read moreMy Point of View on Oracle Exalytics
Oracle has launched Exalytics during the Oracle Open World 2011. I was not there, but I had calls, mails and slides explaining to me what it was.To be honest with you, I first thought it was an in-memory database. So, to simplify, I thought it was a...
Read moreOLAP databases are being killed by In-Memory solutions
In early 90s, to provide acceptable performance results during reporting and drilling, many vendors have designed OLAP (On-Line Analytical Process) solutions. When standard relational databases store detailed data in classic row-column storage, OLAP...
Read moreDoes Real Time BI exist?
One of my architects asked me to validate a roadmap to go from usual batch Business Intelligence (BI) architecture to a real-time BI architecture. He has designed a high level architecture with an enterprise service bus (ESB), an...
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