Not long ago, the rules for what constituted a data warehouse were fairly well defined. The schema was fixed, you could say, and was based primarily on relational database technology designed to ...

Enterprise data sets have gotten so voluminous that they can’t fit into even the largest data warehouses anymore, many businesses find. Now, companies running these overstuffed data stores have an ...

A lot has been made of Hadoop becoming the singular control point for analytics, effectively usurping the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The recent quest to integrate SQL into Hadoop is an example ...

Big Data is the future, a fact both EMC Greenplum and HP Vertica recognize. But the two data warehouse vendors are taking very different approaches to Hadoop, the open source Big Data processing ...

Will Hadoop replace your enterprise data warehouse (EDW)? This question, or some variation there of, has been making the rounds lately. Just this week I’ve read two good posts on the topic (this one ...

Teradata added Hadoop integration to its unified data architecture, partnered with Mellanox to increase throughput on its systems and launched its latest data warehouse platform. The moving parts come ...

New technologies such as Hadoop provide enterprises with another option besides the enterprise data warehouse when it comes to their data storage. Nonetheless, data warehouses still provide value to ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

In his Data Summit 2015 presentation, titled “Building a Real-World Data Warehouse,” Elliott Cordo of Caserta Concepts, covered a range of topics including best practices for building data warehouse ...

Using Teradata sucks — there, I said it. It’s painful to convene the data committee to deal with adding a column to the data warehouse, then having to do a cost/benefit analysis for every meager ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...