So a quick blast on the blog. I've been hearing HANA, HANA, HANA all the time in the last year. It's a new-wave technology - totally in-memory database computing using the columnar database paradigm. Powerful stuff - for analytical dbs it's amazing tech - querying millions of rows in seconds.
However
When SAP purchsed Sybase they acquired not only the unwired platform (SUP)... and not only ASE (their RDBMS)... but also Sybase IQ - a columnar analytical database...
http://www.sybase.co.uk/products/datawarehousing/sybaseiq?htab=Overview&vtab=Latest+Release&hid=79917&vid=84316
Rumours I hear suggest it could be better than HANA in some situations. How will SAP proceed? It's interesting stuff. At least to me.
By the way of anyone knows where I can get academic literature on columnar databases please FW details to doonan_79@hotmail.com.
Cheers all - over and out.
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