Comments on: Enterprise Data World 2015 Recap https://thomaslarock.com/2015/04/enterprise-data-world-2015-recap/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Fri, 17 Apr 2015 21:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: S.E. https://thomaslarock.com/2015/04/enterprise-data-world-2015-recap/#comment-12724 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 21:08:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=12026#comment-12724 In reply to Todd Everett.

“Codd must be turning over in his grave”
ROTFL
Thanks, I will begin use this phrase… 🙂

]]> By: ThomasLaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2015/04/enterprise-data-world-2015-recap/#comment-12719 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:31:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=12026#comment-12719 In reply to Todd Everett.

Wonderful insights Todd, thanks for sharing. Funny, but more than once last week I thought to myself “Codd must be turning over in his grave”.
I think the situation you have described here is not entirely new. As the future for data professionals gets brighter the difficulties for corporate IT become greater as well. I’m not certain I have the answers here, but I believe part of the solution is to reduce the administrative overhead for IT and allow them to focus on helping to manage the data, and not the servers.

]]> By: Todd Everett https://thomaslarock.com/2015/04/enterprise-data-world-2015-recap/#comment-12715 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:52:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=12026#comment-12715 I was at EDW last week as well and agree with your assessment. Regarding SpliceMachine, I have to admit I don’t grasp how this can really work. I thought the whole idea behind hadoop was to partition data among many different machines and use parallel processing to scan it quickly. It scales precisely because there is no need for transaction consistency, and SQL DBMS’ scale up instead of out precisely because there is that need. I’ll be interested to see how they do. It seems to me they think they are combining two technologies with distinct benefits and limitations to create one product with all of the benefits and none of the limitations. I think instead they have unwittingly created one product with all of the limitations and none of the benefits.

The trend I see creating a future bright for data professionals, and an equally disasterous one for corporate IT, is this notion that you need a lot of DBMS’, each with a narrow use case. Many corporations already have 3 DBMS platforms in house – DB2 on z/OS for their 1980’s mainframe systems, Oracle for their 1990’s client server systems, and then SQL Server for when they discovered it provided a core feature set just as good as Oracle for a fraction of the cost. Three entire software stacks and three distinct sets of specialists to administer them. Now, instead of trying to reduce those to one, the industry seems to think the answer is to actually increase it to five or seven. There will be data professional jobs everywhere. Codd must be turning over in his grave right now. He invented the relational model precisely because a relation can represent any kind of data structure at the logical level and thus simplify data management for all applications. Seems to me the goal should be to make data management for applications simpler, not more complicated.

]]> By: datachick https://thomaslarock.com/2015/04/enterprise-data-world-2015-recap/#comment-12711 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:43:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=12026#comment-12711 In reply to ThomasLaRock.

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]]> By: ThomasLaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2015/04/enterprise-data-world-2015-recap/#comment-12710 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:41:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=12026#comment-12710 In reply to datachick.

Defeat? WTH? I don’t recall you winning anything. Also, you didn’t even mention anything about the NULL I was wearing.

]]> By: datachick https://thomaslarock.com/2015/04/enterprise-data-world-2015-recap/#comment-12709 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:35:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=12026#comment-12709 You were very gracious in your defeat. I really admire that about you. Class. Courage to come back, every time. Awesome stuff.

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