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The Voice of the DBA Big Data and SQL

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Sep 17, 2010 Big Data and SQL

I ran across this article on 8 Big Data Deployments in Detail, which was funny since the detail consisted of an old system, a new one, a capacity, a date, and a paragraph. If that's detail, then I wonder what a synopsis would be. Only one of the 8 was using SQL Server, and that had even transitioned to a ParAccel system. Most of the other systems used Oracle previously and they ranged from 7TB (not big, IMHO) to 2.5PB (which is big).

Despite that lack of any real information on what these companies were doing, I did see some interesting things listed. There were a few notes that mentioned compression in a few places, often column store based compression that dramatically speeded up processing for the systems.

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