Following HP's acquisition of Vertica, Teradata
decided to buy Aster Data. The deal is a noticeable milestone -- now all major vendors of DWH platforms have switched to a new generation of analytical engines:
- Teradata will have Aster Data soon
- IBM has Netezza
- Oracle has Exadata
- Microsoft has SQL Server Parallel Database, going to have columnar storage in Denali
- SAP has Sybase IQ, Sybase MPP, Explorer Accelerated
Not to forget emerging players on DWH market:
- HP with brilliant Vertica
- EMC with Greenplum
The new generation features (in various combinations) Massively Parallel Processing (MPP), columnar storages, hardware SQL acceleration, MapReduce, advanced in-database analytical functions.
Era of row-based SMP databases for analytical workloads on large datasets has gone. Don't miss the train.
