http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/02/appliances-are-proving-popular/ Andy Hayler, founder of Kalido and The Information Difference, gives his views on the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and data quality. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:22:13 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/02/appliances-are-proving-popular/comment-page-1/#comment-36003 Andy on Enterprise Software » The surprisingly fertile world of database innovation Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:06:13 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/02/appliances-are-proving-popular/#comment-36003 [...] I must admit that with my background in enterprise architecture at Shell I underestimated how much of a market there has been for specialist databases, assuming that the innate conservatism of corporate buyers would make it very hard for specialsit database vendors. Initially I was proved right, with attempts like Red Brick flickering but quickly becoming subsumed, while object databases were clearly not going to take off. With such false starts it was easy to extrapolate and assume that the relational vendors would simply win out and leave no room for innovation. However to take the area of data warehousing, this has clearly not been the case. Teradata blazed the trail of a proprietary database superior in data warehouse performance to Oracle etc, and now Netezza and a host of smaller start-ups are themselves snapping at Teradata’s heels. The in-memory crowd are also doing well, with for example Qliktech now being the fastest growing BI vendors by a long way, thanks to its in-memory database approach. Certainly Stonebraker is right about text - companies like Fast and their competitors would not dream of using relational databases to build their text search applications, an area where Oracle et al never really got it right at all. [...] [...] I must admit that with my background in enterprise architecture at Shell I underestimated how much of a market there has been for specialist databases, assuming that the innate conservatism of corporate buyers would make it very hard for specialsit database vendors. Initially I was proved right, with attempts like Red Brick flickering but quickly becoming subsumed, while object databases were clearly not going to take off. With such false starts it was easy to extrapolate and assume that the relational vendors would simply win out and leave no room for innovation. However to take the area of data warehousing, this has clearly not been the case. Teradata blazed the trail of a proprietary database superior in data warehouse performance to Oracle etc, and now Netezza and a host of smaller start-ups are themselves snapping at Teradata’s heels. The in-memory crowd are also doing well, with for example Qliktech now being the fastest growing BI vendors by a long way, thanks to its in-memory database approach. Certainly Stonebraker is right about text – companies like Fast and their competitors would not dream of using relational databases to build their text search applications, an area where Oracle et al never really got it right at all. [...]

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