Analytics Team

Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, announces the launch of their new cloud based relational database – the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

Database vendor, Greenplum, is now offering a free download of the single node version of its database. It is available for several different operating systems. Here’s a DBMS2 article with some more information.
In another DBMS2 article, there’s some information about the pace of Greenplum’s recent customer acquisitions which bring it to 100+ as [...]

Vertica has been touting the values of the columnar data store over the more traditional row structure of a database. Now Greenplum is offering its own column structure. The twist is that Greenplum allows for both row and column structures within the same database. Check out more information in this DBMS2 article.

Who has the biggest database? Due to the increasing amount of behavioral information tracked during a web browsing session, some internet properties are starting to rack up some pretty hefty databases.
Ebay has a 6.5 petabyte Greenplum warehouse and a 2.5 petabyte Teradata warehouse. This system ingests hundreds of billions of new rows of [...]

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, provides these tips to keep your database simple and running fast on his blog at All Things Distributed.

Here’s a detailed write up on how eGroups (Yahoo Groups) evolved their utilization of MySQL.

Switching to open source can be a great way to reduce your cost and gain some independence. If you are considering migrating from Oracle to MySQL, here are 50 things you might want to consider first.

Netezza opens box, builds developer network for predictive analytics and high-demand, non-SQL analyses.
By Doug Henschen
Appliances are changing the game in data warehousing, and if Netezza has its way, its appliance will also bring big changes to predictive analytics and other forms of high-demand analytic and algorithmic analyses.
Broadening the appeal of its Netezza Performance Server (NPS), [...]