So, What is “Oracle’s New Database Accelerator”?
September 12th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
I was just taking a look through the Open World session catalog when I came across what I presume is recently added session, “Oracle’s New Database Accelerator: Query Processing Revolutionized”. It’s actually running three times on the Thursday which indicates that it’s actually quite a big deal, and there’s a follow-up session later on entitled “Oracle’s New Database Accelerator : A Technical Overview” which sort of implies that we’re talking about an actual new product here rather than just a marketing exercise.
So what is it then? Any guesses? Well I’ve obviously not got any inside information, but I’d make a guess at something along the lines of some sort of development around the Oracle Optimized Data Warehouse initiative, perhaps linking in partitioning, Oracle OLAP (hence the “accelerator” bit), Automatic Storage Management (the “storage solutions” bit), maybe making use of some new 11gR2 feature that Chuck Rozwat or Andy Mendelsohn will announce earlier in the week. Or perhaps Oracle will buy Netezza, or maybe even Vertica? Any guesses? At least this should make the last day of Open World somewhat interesting.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Dunno, but I bet it is what Kevin was referring to here:
“The fact is that I am heads down doing performance work on a product that I cannot speak about until Oracle OpenWorld.”
http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-rumors-of-my-demise/
and
http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/of-gag-orders-excitement-and-new-products/
I’m guessing something closer to the storage/disk level then. Maybe a way of keeping certain bits of data in a disk (SSD ?) cache, somewhere between SGA and conventional disk.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Yeah, that looks very interesting.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I think it will be interesting, indeed.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Oracle TimesTen?
September 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
This was picked up by The Register today:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/oracle_ellison_keynote/
Speculation around a hardware tie-up with HP and use of SSD and some fancy compression… stay tuned.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Another speculative story, this time generously crediting Mr. Rittman’s comments:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Databases&articleId=9115059&taxonomyId=53
September 20th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Mark,
I really wanted to attend your session on decision automation at OpenWorld, but I won’t get there until Tuesday. Drop me a note at neil@smartenoughsystems.com if you have a few minutes Tues-Thurs to get together.
-NR