Re: Webcast - Rapid Data Warehouse Development - Build a Pilot in 8 weeks!
Gumby, You are still missing the point, having a couple of petabytes of data on fast hardware and software does not make a data warehouse. Most of the time it ends up being a data junk yard. The point is how do you quickly design and build something so users can gain insight into their data and make meaningful decisions. Regards - Lester Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Well... > Glad you asked. :-) > > You can use all of the above, or none of above. (Ok, really below, but > you know what I meant.) > > You can write a map/reduce, or series of map/reduce(s) and output to a > flat file, or even to a relational database. > > Then there's pig, but I haven't had time to play with it yet. And > there's now a JDBC conectivity, which I haven't have time to play with > yet, either. > > The point is that you can build data warehouses, data marts, etc to > handle large amounts of data fairly quickly using non traditional means. > > Now I do see issues with Hadoop, but I think that over time, it will get > better. > > Don't take my word for it, Accenture has already started their own cloud > computing practice. Sun's released their vision and well, then there's > IBM.... > > ;-) > > -G > > PS. Here's some food for thought... Back in the 90's Informix's XPS had > customers who created 27TB data warehouses. If we rely on Moore's law, > that database would probably be comparable to one of ~2.7 petabytes. ;-) > Can DB2 do that? > > > > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:29:25 +0000 > > From: obnoxio@serendipita.com > > CC: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: Re: Webcast - Rapid Data Warehouse Development - Build a > Pilot in 8 weeks! > > > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > But I can build a cluster of Hadoop/HBase machines and set up a DW in > > > less than 8 days! (Ok, assuming that the machines are already built > and > > > are already networked...) > > > > And I can do that in half a day. So fucking what? > > > > And once you have those servers up and running, what are you going to > > use to query them? Cognos? Brio? Business Objects? Crystal Reports? > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Obnoxio The Clown > > > > http://obotheclown.blogspot.com > > I will now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish. > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Informix-list mailing list > > Informix-list@iiug.org > > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. > <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/>; > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lester Knutsen lester@advancedatatools.com Advanced DataTools Corporation Voice: 703-256-0267 x102 Visit our Web page: http://www.advancedatatools.com ______________________________________________________________________