Rohit Amarnath is CTO of Vertica, the Unified Analytics Platform, enabling predictive business insights based on a scalable architecture. So, what’s fueling all this growth? Based on my industry ...

Yesterday I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I ...

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Great! Wait ... How do we define database workload? Good question! I’ve researched many approaches to this question and still don’t have a definitive answer or way to measure. Let’s dive into some of ...