I Know Nothing About Data Warehouse Appliances, and Now, So Won’t You - Part I
I’ve been watching all these come-lately DW/BI technologies for a while now-especially the ever-so-highly-revered “appliances.” I’m also interested in columnar orientation as my past posts on columnar technology (e.g., columnar technology I, columnar technology II) will attest.
Rows and Columns, or Columns and Rows?
I don’t know, because in that famed Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer style, these things confuse me. However, Stuart Frost, CEO of DATAllegro, puts it this way in his fledgling blog:
At the end of the day, column orientation is just one approach to limiting the amount of data read for a given query. In effect, it’s an extreme
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