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One Size Fits All - A Concept Whose Time Has Come and Gone - The Database Column
Topic: Technology 4:03 pm EDT, Sep  6, 2007

In short, the world of 2007 is radically different from the world of the late 1970s. However, none of the major vendors have performed a complete redesign to deal with this changed landscape. As such they should be considered legacy technology, more than a quarter of century in age and "long in the tooth".

In every major application area I can think of, it is possible to build a SQL DBMS engine with vertical market-specific internals that outperforms the "one size fits all" engines by a factor of 50 or so. Vertica is an example of this claim in the data warehouse market. It achieves blindingly fast warehouse performance by:

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One Size Fits All - A Concept Whose Time Has Come and Gone - The Database Column



 
 
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