Dorky attempts at geek Shakespere aside; as the volume, complexity, and variability of your data systems increase in … entropy …, this becomes a fundamental question in whether one scales up or scale out their data problem. Apologies for the nerdy chemistry references in advance – which starts with this picture of Dr. Arthur Grosser (more later) As noted in the previous post Scale Up or Scale Out your Data Problems? A Space Analogy, the decision to scaling up or scaling out your data problem is a key facet in your Big Data problem. But just as important as the…
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Scale Up or Scale Out your Data Problems? A Space Analogy
As I am writing more about Big Data, I’m been asked whether we need to have traditional relational or cube systems now that we have Big Data / NoSQL / Hadoop. My responses are to note that these are different systems that serve different purposes even though both are used to better understand data. But before we dive into the specifics surrounding relational databases compared to Hadoop / Big Data, we need to first talk about the differences between solving the a data problem by scaling up the problem or scaling it out. One way to understand the difference is…
Revelations – rolling the hard six to SQL BI and Hadoop
Sometimes, you have to roll a hard six. — Commander Adama in Battlestar Galactica “Revelations” In May of this year, I had noted that I was At a Crossroads … from SSAS to Big Data!. After I had written this post, many people ping me wondering if I had left the world of BI and/or left Microsoft altogether. [Note, I have called out that I AM a Microsoft employee but the opinions here are my own] My subsequent posts ranged from Cloud to a little bit of Analysis Services. By the way, I did forget to create…
Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services…does it apply to SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2?
I recently received a great question concerning the whitepaper Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services: Question, does this also apply for SQL Server 2008? What are you experiences with the scale out? I’m in the process of recommending using this technology to a large customer of mine and want to make sure we are actually able to deploy such a setup. So let’s tackle these issues one-by-one. Does the whitepaper Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services apply for SQL Server 2008? Yes! Okay, now a more verbose answer here :). The paper is applicable to both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server…
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