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Database Bigwigs Lead Stealthy Open Source Startup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hope-it-isn't-vaporcorp dept.

BobB writes "Michael Stonebraker, who cooked up the Ingres and Postgres database management systems, is back with a stealthy startup called Vertica. And not just him, he has recruited former Oracle bigwigs Ray Lane and Jerry Held to give the company a boost before its software leaves beta testing. The promise — a Linux-based system that handles queries 100 times faster than traditional relational database management systems."

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  1. Perfect timing by defile · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Loading a million random records out of a set of one hundred million records is an enormously difficult task for an RDBMS on commodity hardware (e.g. magnetic rotating disks). This is a more common task than you would think. ORM systems backed by an RDBMS, such as Ruby on Rails, Django, Hibernate, have exactly this requirement and will only demand more as these models become more mainstream. Think about what search engines have to do: find millions among billions, all to show a user a dozen.

    These problems are solvable now, but there's a lot of duplication of effort going on that a smart database vendor could solve for us.