![]() Today’s relational databases are economical, available on a broad range of hardware and operating systems, generally compatible across vendors, performant for many queries, scalable to fairly large data volumes without resorting to partitioning, suitable for partitioning when larger scale is required, based on open standards, mature, and stable.Relational databases can enable access to data relatively efficiently even if the query was not initially envisioned when the database was designed. ![]() Relational databases are suitable for a broad range of applications.There are many good reasons for this success. Relational databases have dominated the commercial information processing world for twenty years or more. I attended this year’s SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando, and SAP paid for my airfare and hotel.I was at SAP when the technology underlying HANA was acquired, though I am referring to and using no trade secrets or proprietary information in preparing this analysis.I worked at SAP for six years, as well as eight years at Oracle (plus also at Ingres before that).I have a few disclosures to make before I continue my analysis and comments on Hana: The technology has been variously described as “ transformative” and “ wacko.” Well, which is it? ![]()
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