Aptana Cloud Podcast is a post from: Database Geek Blog

I recently had the opportunity to spend some time on the phone with Kevin Hakman, the Director of Evangelism at Aptana.  Aptana makes the popular open source web development IDE, Aptana Studio and offers a cloud service for moving your web applications out to the cloud.

We had a great discussion where we talked about Aptana Studio, Aptana Jaxer and Aptana Cloud as well as… Read the rest!

Comment by LewisC on Netezza Performance Server vs Oracle Database Machine (Podcast) is a post from: Database Geek Blog

I think Phil would say that according to the Oracle page for the database machine:

The HP Oracle Database Machine is a complete system, including software, servers, and storage, designed to run large, multi-terabyte data warehouses 10x faster than conventional data warehouse systems.

Oracle is targeting data warehouses not “normal, everyday usage of Oracle Database.”

Comment by “Simon Greener” on Netezza Performance Server vs Oracle Database Machine (Podcast) is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Lewis,

Are we comparing apples with apples?

The Oracle database machine seems to me to be a generic machine trying to improve performance for normal, everyday usage of Oracle Database.

Oracle database includes some ROLAP functionality but is not, strictly speaking, a dedicated data warehouse database (cf HOLAP and MOLAP).

Because of this I would… Read the rest!

Netezza Performance Server vs Oracle Database Machine (Podcast) is a post from: Database Geek Blog

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