Structured Data

Oracle OpenWorld Unconference

Greg Rahn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:19:49 +0000

One of the less “traditional” tracks at Oracle OpenWorld is the Oracle Unconference. The Unconference allows for a much more informal setting for sessions and generally is more interactive and audience driven compared to the usually amounts of PowerPoint sessions contain which can cause eyes to bleed. This year I’ve signed up to [...]

Oracle And Sun To Announce World’s First OLTP Database Machine With Sun FlashFire Technology

Greg Rahn — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:36:12 +0000

The internet buzz seems to be that Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Corporation and John Fowler, EVP, Sun Microsystems, Inc. will be announcing a new product, the world’s first OLTP database machine with Sun’s brand new FlashFire technology on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 1 p.m. PT. Both Sun and Oracle have Webcast invitations on [...]

Top 10 Oracle 11gR2 New Features

Greg Rahn — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:02:15 +0000

In catching up on blog posts I see that Jonathan Lewis, Christian Antognini and Nuno Souto picked up on the deferred segment creation new feature in Oracle 11gR2. In keeping with the theme, I thought I’d put together the top 10 new features in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) that I consider significant. Analytic [...]

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Is Now Generally Available

Greg Rahn — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:03:16 +0000

Just a quick post to spread the news that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is now generally available. Download it for Linux today. See the press release for the usual details. Here is an interesting tidbit of info from a PC World article: The new release is the product of some 1,500 developers and 15 [...]

Oracle OpenWorld 2009: The Real-World Performance Group

Greg Rahn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:25:00 +0000

Even though Oracle OpenWorld 2009 is a few months away, I thought I would take a moment to mention that the Oracle Real-World Performance Group will again be hosting three sessions. Hopefully you are no stranger to our Oracle database performance sessions and this year we have what I think will be a very [...]

Oracle Parallel Execution: Interconnect Myths And Misunderstandings

Greg Rahn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:17 +0000

A number of weeks back I had come across a paper/presentation by Riyaj Shamsudeen entitled Battle of the Nodes: RAC Performance Myths (avaiable here). As I was looking through it I saw one example that struck me as very odd (Myth #3 – Interconnect Performance) and I contacted him about it. After [...]

Oracle Press Release: Customers are Choosing the Oracle Database Machine

Greg Rahn — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:51:12 +0000

Oracle put out a press release today entitled “Customers are Choosing the Oracle Database Machine” mentioning the new Exadata and Oracle Database Machine customers. I’ve quoted a few parts of it below. Oracle cites twenty initial customers. Initial Customers Initial Oracle Exadata customers including Amtrak, Allegro Group, Automobile Association of the UK, CTC, Garanti Bank, [...]

Exadata Snippits From Oracle F4Q09 Earnings Call

Greg Rahn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:51:00 +0000

Oracle Corporation had its F4Q09 earnings call today and the Exadata comments started right away with the earnings press release: “The Exadata Database Machine is well on its way to being the most successful new product launch in Oracle’s 30 year history,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “Several of Teradata’s largest customers are performance testing — [...]

Facebook: Hive – A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse Using Hadoop

Greg Rahn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:21:59 +0000

Today, June 10th, marks the Yahoo! Hadoop Summit ‘09 and the crew at Facebook have a writeup on the Facebook Engineering page entitled: Hive – A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse Using Hadoop. I found this an very interesting read given some of the Hadoop/MapReduce comments from David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker as well as [...]

Oracle And HP Take Back #1 Spot For 1TB TPC-H Benchmark

Greg Rahn — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:34:28 +0000

Oracle and HP have taken back the #1 spot by setting a new performance record in the 1TB TPC-H benchmark. The HP/Oracle result puts the Oracle database ahead of both the Exasol (currently #2 & #3) and ParAccel (currently #4) results in the race for performance at the 1TB scale factor and places Oracle [...]