Cloud
Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud
The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. …
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Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …
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Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …
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Google Needs Another Database To Attack Oracle, DB2, And SQL Server Directly
Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? …
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The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases
Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …
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The World Has Changed – Why Haven’t Database Designs?
It seems like a question a child would ask: “Why are things the way they are?” …
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US Air Force Spends $100 Million To Accelerate Data Warehouses
We talk about big money being spent on GPU-accelerated HPC and AI systems all the time here at The Next Platform, and we have been clear that we think another area where such acceleration will take off is with databases and related analytics, and particularly with data warehouses that have trillions of rows of data. …
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Necessary For Adtech Then, Even Moreso For Enterprise Now
Like other technologies, a lot of the databases in use in the world are born out of necessity because some other database hit a performance, capacity, or latency wall – or sometimes all three at the same time. …
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Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
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The GPU Database Evolves Into An Analytics Platform
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. …