By Jerry Shattner In an age when the data volumes handled by organizations are growing exponentially, it is becoming impossibly expensive to maintain all enterprise data in a traditional “online” data warehouse while providing adequate performance and service levels to users. Implementing a nearline component is an ideal way to…

By Jerry Shattner Use of column-based data compression technology allows for storage of relational data in what is essentially a pre-indexed format, alleviating the requirement for storing or building indexes at restore time. This design significantly reduces the overall storage needed for the database. Column-based storage also significantly improves data…

SAND, Sun Microsystems, & Bill Inmon (MP3)