There is a lot of buzz surrounding SAP’s just-announced acquisition of Sybase. I’ve been asked a lot of questions about it — what it means for the column-based database market in general and SAND CDBMS in specific — and thought I would share my take. SAP is a smart company….

###*SearchSAP.com* recently asked if SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) costs were worth the benefit, and pointed out alternatives including nearline as part of an ILM strategy. >”BWA is a necessary ingredient once you reach a certain size but implementing ILM and archiving can dramatically improve query performance. A good strategy…