More and more IT warriors want to accelerate moving of their existing ETL — the ingest, reconciliation, and cleansing of data from various sources across the organization — to Databricks. Wait what? Isn’t ETL one of Databricks’ strong suits in general? So what is this about? ETL is the lifeline of every data warehouse. ETL […]
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It’s no secret that Teradata customers are looking to replace their aging technology with Databricks. Teradata pushing its customers aggressively to Vantage, its own cloud offering, just increased their customers’ anxiety. If there’s one thing IT leaders despise, it’s vendor lock-in. And that’s exactly what they are experiencing right now. To migrate away from Vantage,
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This article has been updated and was originally published on May 18, 2023 Database migrations are rife with horror stories of cost overruns. Cost overruns of 300%–500% are more common than you might think. (That most migrations fail to accomplish their objective is a different subject, and we need to talk about that as well
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By Gourab Mitra, Jozsef Patvarczki, Tony Petukhov, Mike Waas Every database user has been there: your SQL statement doesn’t work. At first, it’s unclear if it is a matter of wrong syntax, a limitation of the language support of the database, or simply a bug. To make your case with the database vendor—be it a
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By Gourab Mitra and Jozsef Patvarczki AWS re:Invent 2023 was yet again an exhilarating experience. A flurry of new offerings was announced during the conference, such as adding vector capabilities to existing products, serverless offerings, and, of course, Generative AI. However, we didn’t attend to gawk at shiny new objects. We were there to get
Image credit of Jirsak, licensed via Shutterstock, 2023. When they first hear of OpenDB, prospects think, “This is too good to be true.” A compact, simple-to-deploy software platform that breaks the vendor lock-in of some of the biggest names in databases seems improbable. And yet, we’ve repeatedly demonstrated its effectiveness by liberating iconic enterprises from
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Image credit of Skorzewiak, licensed via Shutterstock, 2023. Oracle has long been the primary target of database startups. Even Microsoft has taken a swing at it as far back as 20 years ago with SQL Server. And while there have been many successes in moving Oracle customers to a new database, it’s never become the
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We’ve clearly struck a chord with many Oracle users when we announced Datometry Explorer. Replacing Oracle with PostgreSQL without having to mangle one’s applications is a powerful value proposition. From prospects and partners, we heard two kinds of questions: First, can this really be done? And second, inquiries about some specific, “weird” Oracle feature they
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Struggling with your Oracle to PostgreSQL migration? Despite years of migrating, do you feel you only scratched the surface? The bad news is that what you’re doing is clearly not working. The good news is that help is on its way. In the next weeks, we’re kicking off the countdown to Datometry openDB, a revolutionary
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Commercial databases are the single most expensive component in the IT stack. Oracle is no exception. So, it’s no surprise that customers have long sought cost-effective alternatives. Open-source databases like PostgreSQL have a big allure: they offer the full functionality of a mature database system without the license fee. However, database vendors have what is
