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Most of the time vendor videos are emphasizing the superiority of their own commercial platform. But this short video gives a fair overview of the similarities and differences between Hadoop and Netezza.
The video is 5 minutes long and well worth watching.
Krishnan Parasuraman ( IBM Netezza Chief Architect) also mentiones a couple of scenarios where using both solutions would deliver an optimal solution:
Hadoop used as a data ingestion layer for large volumes of data
Hadoop is a system of archive
BigData Market: IBM Acquires Two Analytics Companies : data analysts would call this consolidation. I'd say it's the beginning of the acquisition spree.
MongoDB Selected as Core Content Management Component of SAP's Platform-As-A-Service : it's not very often to hear about a giant chosing a newcomer's solution as a core component of its services.
For a while I'll keep updating this post to point to the most interesting news this month. …
IBM did the same thing, and the Directory Server I worked on was a fork of the UM code too, but it heavily diverged from the Netscape branches. The divergence was primarily due to: (1) backing to DB2 as opposed to BDB, and (2) needing to run on IBM's big iron like OS/400 and Z series mainframes.
Macro point is that there have actually been very few "fresh" implementations of LDAP, and it gets a pretty bad reputation because at the end of the day you've got …
Hadoop Summit is always interesting for Hadoopers. You get to learn the latest and greatest in Hadoop world and meet the people behind projects in the Hadoop ecosystem. In this post, I have tried to share my takeaways.
Currently there are many distributions of Hadoop floating around. Besides the main Apache Hadoop distribution, there is Cloudera, Yahoo, IBM and even Amazon uses there own distribution for their Elastic Map Reduce Service. All these distributions were born …
IBM jumps in the "big data" rush as it announced two major acquisitions in two days. On Wednesday, Big Blue announced that it will acquire security intelligence analytics company i2 [...] The second major buy was revealed earlier today. IBM announced the deal to acquire Algorithmics, a risk analytics software and advisory service
The higher on the data stack your business is the more challenges it faces but the higher the reward. The good news is that the well established data …
…, you went SQL server; if you were enterprise, you'd go Oracle or IBM depending on your enterprise preferences. But in terms of technology, to paraphrase Henry Ford: any color you want, as long it's relational [2] .
Bob Warfield's recent post NoSQL is a premature optimization , which got a lot of press, shows that this mentality is still in wide use despite the fact that during the last two years NoSQL databases, NewSQL databases, and analytic …
