Database Technology Trends » Query Performance

Sybase ASE 15 – Semantic Partitions to the Rescue

Peter Dobler — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:39:47 +0000

Data explosion and the always present request for faster data retrieval led to the introduction of more granular data distribution on physical disks. Even with faster disks, the increase in parallel processing created more contention on a single table.

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Sybase IQ – What’s New in Version 15

Peter Dobler — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:09:35 +0000

It was summer of 2000 when I first learned about Sybase IQ and its revolutionary column vector database technology. As a long time Sybase ASE and Oracle DBA I was used to database engines that organize data in a row by row method. For quite some time I had difficulties to think in column terms and not in row terms.