One aspect of my positions with Calpont, MySQL, and other companies I’ve worked for has been to interact with the various analysts who cover the database scene. It’s definitely an interesting part of the job, especially when you get to query some of the experts who have been around a long time and are good at making solid technology calls on where things are headed.
IDC is one such group of experts and they recently released an interesting set of predictions on where databases – and specifically data warehouses and analytic DB’s – are going. You can read the quick update they issued HERE.
A couple of their ‘within 5 year’ predictions I found particular interesting for MySQL data warehouse users are:
- Most data warehouses will be stored in a columnar fashion
- Most large-scale database servers will achieve horizontal scalability through clustering
This is helpful information for MySQL users who want to ensure they’re making the right bets on their data warehouse designs and the storage engines they’re choosing. It’s also good news because MySQL users now have a choice of column databases they can try out and see which is right for them.
I’ve written a new article on the MySQL dev zone on why you should check out a column database if you’re planning to implement a data warehouse, reporting database, or any read-intensive application. It talks about the why and why not’s of column DB’s, discusses why they matter, and provides some interesting benchmark tests of a leading row database vs. InfiniDB.
You can find the new article HERE. Please let us know what you think and what plans you have for your data warehouses.
From: InfiniDB
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