Well, it's New Year's Day, and here I sit in my drafty New England garret ready to contemplate the most significant opportunity last year in the intersecting worlds of relational databases and quants. I have to give the laurels to the Obama quants, who ousted the political operatives, and set out to do political quant better than their opposition. One might give a thorny crown to the Romney crew, who did things the crony way (letting the loyal political hacks make the decisions), but that would be cruel. Previously cited, here is the story. Given that the DNC came a cropper in state and local elections, ceding yet more control to the Republicans, one can't conclude that Democrats are naturally more adept at quant.
A few honorable mentions:
- SSD land turned into a mine field. OCZ nearly went belly up, and might yet still. Consumer/prosumer SSD has fallen to commodity status; we can expect the Big Boys to dominate going forward. STEC found trouble, and is still in it. Fusion-io has been largely static. Flash arrays, from the bigger companies, gained mindshare; the quote from Linus is closer to true now than last New Year's.
- NoSql and NOSql fought with each other and against SQL for mindshare. On the whole, NOSql appears to have bested NoSql, but I stand by Date's quote. If you care about your data, you have to have a central control, i.e. a TPM, and Kiddie Koders who think they can gin up a replacement (in client code, no less) for any of the industrial strength engines that have been developed over the last two decades are kidding themselves (and any Suit dumb enough to buy the story).
- R, and other analytics, get closer integration with databases; SAP/HANA/R notably. But not, so far as I can tell, Sql Server. That part is too bad.
- Violin was reported to IPO at $2 billion in October, but hasn't happened yet. Enterprise SSD may yet still live as something more than just HDD cache.
Despite what the reactionaries assert, the world is not flat nor is it hierarchical. The world is relational. Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious
$536,800,000 MARF™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
Covid-19 has killed at least 1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)
Scientists aren't vocal enough about science. There are large groups of people who think scientists are all frauds and who don't
believe in science, and they're being cultured by some of our far right-wing politicians, religious leaders and community leaders. -- Drew Weissman/2022
To date, Microsoft is stating that organizations testing In-Memory OLTP have
seen transaction speeds improve by up to 30 times compared to past
performance, with the best performance gains achieved when the business
logic resides in the database and not in the applications.
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
I have had to explain and re-explain and re-explain and re-explain, you know, how relational databases work, what is an eigenvector,
what is dimensionality reduction.
-- Christopher Wylie/2018
... but Flash-based storage has such a different performance profile from rotating media, that I suspect that it will end up having
a large impact on filesystem design. Right now, most filesystems tend to be designed with the latencies of rotating media in mind.
-- Linus Torvalds/2007
-- Chris Date/2009
This week's thought
[The intelligence community] argued that [the restrictive amendment] would cripple the program because they typically use it before there is enough evidence to meet a standard of probable cause for a warrant, like early in investigations when they are trying to learn more about a phone number or an email account found to be in contact with a suspected foreign spy or terrorist. -- Charlie Savage/2024 [IOW, let's catch the thief before the horse is out of the barn - the MARF™(party like it's 1829) traitor's worst nightmare]
In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode machines, there is no reason not to
build from BCNF data. Time to do what Dr. Codd demonstrated. Technology has finally caught up with the maths.
About
- Robert Young
- Been doing databases, both relational and others, as well as operations research since Hector was a Pup.
Shameless Plug
I know a little something about SQL, DB2 (preferably LUW, z/OS if the money's right), Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, and database design in general. Mentoring/teaching/consulting on a short term basis, too. And a bit of stat analysis if it's R.
gnuoytr at rcn dot com.
gnuoytr at rcn dot com.
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