David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Advantages and Challenges of In-Memory Databases and Processing

Posted by David Menninger on Nov 26, 2010 5:57:53 PM

Interest in and development of in-memory technologies have increased over the last few years, driven in part by widespread availability of affordable 64-bit hardware and operating systems and the performance advantages in-memory operations provide over disk-based operations. Some software vendors, such as SAP with its High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) project has been advancing with momentum, have even suggested that we can put our entire analytic systems in memory.

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Topics: Database, Enterprise Data Strategy, Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, CIO, Complex Event Processing, In-Memory Computing, Information Management, Information Technology, IT Performance Management (ITPM)