Every day new varieties of Extreme Data deluge the enterprise. It is no longer sufficient to simply focus on tabular data coming out of CRM, ERP, SCM and other operational OLTP systems. Just when enterprises thought they were finished creating their *single customer view* or their *single source of truth*…

Dear Vertica, By way of a blog post from Mike Stonebraker you recently endeavoured to lay down a mandate for the key criteria for what constitutes a true column store. This was a highly laudable effort. However, after the post generated more responses, interest and external commentary than any previous…

SAND’s in-memory database optimizer solves the dynamic requirements of today’s environments. We see customers adding exponentially increasing data volumes, new data types every day from social feeds to mobile data to device logs, and all moving at ever greater velocity. To solve this in-memory database vendors have a solution for…

Did Mike Stonebraker change his mind about what the criteria are from a column store database (CDBMS) or did someone spill coffee on Vertica’s WordPress install and short out his post? Either way I was surprised to see Mike’s blog — in which he opined on the criteria for column…

I am delighted to see Curt Monash has entered the debate on Mike Stonebraker’s *Real Column Store* blog post. I’ve already responded to Mike but Curt’s post brings up some other things worthy of consideration: >There are some good things about [Mike Stonebraker’s] post, and some not-so-good. The worst paragraph…

*The following is a response to Mike Stonebraker’s recent blog post,* Will the Real Column Stores Please Stand Up? *I originally left it as a comment to that post but so far it has not been published. I can’t imagine they have a very long moderation queue or that Mike…