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Yeah, the availability of tools on the internet makes it so easy for common people like me to create a small data entry app so quickly without doing a single line of code. Take a look at the picture and tell me if I am wrong&lt;br /&gt;
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I had written a post about Vertica last year, the column store database. I was reading an article about high performance data warehousing today and found few more facts about Vertica.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;All of us may know that it uses highly parallel and shared nothing architecture just like Teradata. The difference is that Vertica stores the data by columns which means that it accesses only the columns that are required. A row based system would need to access the complete record regardless of the nature of query. Doesn't that ring a bell when we think of star schemas? I have come across facts and dimensions which had few hundred columns. That's definitely going to increase the performance!&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;We talked about column store. Now let's talk about the next weapon from Vertica. Compression - the data is compressed before it is stored in the disk. So it consumes much lesser space compared to the other databases. What's the big deal! The hard disks are cheaper these days. True that hard disks are cheaper but it's not always about the disk size that we can afford. It is also about transmitting the data back and forth from the memory to the disk which is indeed a big bottleneck. The processors are becoming cheaper. Henceforth compressing and decompressing the data in memory compared to transmitting large decompressed data is a better option. Think about those columns which has so many null values and white spaces.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;It's not all. Vertica has one more weapon which takes the battle to top notch. Processing on compressed data - Vertica do not decompress the data after reading it from the disk, it does all the processing using the compressed data. It only decompresses it when the data has to be delivered to the end user. This is terrific as the amount of data that Vertica needs to handle becomes lesser and lesser.&lt;/li&gt;
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Given all these facts, where does it leave us with traditional ETL techniques?&amp;nbsp;Is ETL the right technique while using Vertica? I don't think so. ELT must be the best method given all the processing power of Vertica. What I don't know is that if Vertica has got extensive and robust API to work with data in compressed format. If Vertica has got the robust API, I would recommend to use the data integration tool to just transport data from source to target. The transformation, integration, cleansing, conforming, de-depulication and aggregation are better done within Vertica than outside the Vertica's ecosystem.&lt;/div&gt;
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I am talking about the All New Hyundai Verna (ANHV) that got launched today in India. Read &lt;a href="http://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/recent-launches/new-hyundai-verna-launched/8413/1"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; for the details and &lt;a href="http://www.zigwheels.com/reviews-advice/reviews/new-hyundai-verna-1st-drive/8229/1"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; for test drive report.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ford India and Hyundai India were playing "wait &amp;amp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; watch" for more than few weeks to launch their flagship products Fiesta and Verna. Fiesta went ahead with a launch two weeks back just show casing their product. I read somewhere that Ford didn't even allow anyone to look at the engine. So it was just an official peep show which also announced about features which are first-time for the segment such as cruise control. Hyundai too did the same with their Hyundia Fluidic advertisements but it was too minimal. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The picture below shows the side views of these two new cars. I feel that Verna looks more radical than Fiesta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IuIvdRo4xQo/Tcp4FbvEOeI/AAAAAAAABz4/p4iB1Xj0v00/s400/Hyundai%2BFord.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 113px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605424720955849186" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It all got over today. Hyundai dared Ford with the official launch and I would say that it has got the widest range of options possible. So if you have a budget of anywhere from 8 lacs to 12 lacs OTR price, you would be able to find one Verna. I hope Ford does their launch sooner than any later to miss out on a good number of customers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All that have been said, my take on these two cars based on the reviews I have read&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Verna - As always a smoother, bigger and a good looking car. Not an exciting car though.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fiesta - Last generation Fiesta a.k.a Fiesta Classic is still one of the best driver's car and the new Fiesta will be no different. With some exciting features like Cruise control, it would be more of fun than the sober Verna.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;BTW the title of the post is just mentioning about the design cues that each of the products are based on. 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I was in a training today which took us through &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.vertica.com/" title="Vertica Systems" rel="homepage"&gt;Vertica&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS" title="Column-oriented DBMS" rel="wikipedia"&gt;column store&lt;/a&gt; MPP-based analytics database. Having been worked in a MPP database, many other data integration and information delivery tools, it was interesting and fun to learn something different. There are certain things which I really liked are&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- They have kept the SQL to comply to ANSI-99 which is a good thing as the application developers and power users have little to learn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- The concept of making tables as logical is cool as the underlying mechanism of storage (projections) can be reorganized/changed/modified without the end user ever knowing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- The ability of the database engine to do all the processes in the compressed/encoded format and push the uncompress process to the end. What does this mean is that it tries to work with as less volume of data as possible. That's cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- WOS (Write Optimized Store) which enables the trickle feed to be written to the memory instead of the disk. I have heard about using in-memory solution for reading but it's my first to hear about using in-memory for writing and I really felt that it would help in real time analytics.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- New nodes can be added without bringing the database down. This is good as the data growth in this era of infomration is exponential and being able to add a node online is critical.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I will be very excited to get an opportunity to work on this database.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;u&gt;Update - &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Few more things that I missed to write about,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Native High Availability - I am not sure if any other MPP databases has such a concept. With proven compressing ratio of 1:8 for Telco companies, I guess the customers won't mind having native high availability turned on for the critical facts. The native high availability is achieved by replicating the projection data in different segments/nodes. Even if a node goes down, the data is still available in some another node.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Load balancing - the database engine across all the nodes are load balanced by a Vertica process running on each node. But what is missing is the application connection level load balancing. Vertica off the shelf installed on n nodes let the end user connect to any of the node but it doesn't give you a single point of entry. If a customer wants to give a single point of entry, I guess they either need to use a hardware router or an external application to load balance the connection requests.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Disclaimer : The views expressed here are purely personal based on a training I attended. It is not validated by Vertica or anyone else. 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I am conservative in spending on gadgets, comparing with same segment of people like me. Especially I don't go out and spend whenever there is a new gadget out with a new technology. So losing the phone was a good excuse to buy a better phone. But I was confused with too many options with a budget of INR 15,000. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My budget was around - 15,000 INR. iPhone, Motorola &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid" title="Motorola Droid" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Milestone&lt;/a&gt; and HTC HD,Hero,Xperia X10 all were out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I wanted a compact touch screen phone - Almost all &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://nokia.com" title="Nokia" rel="homepage"&gt;Nokia&lt;/a&gt; phones were ruled out due to the size factor!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I wanted an Android phone - Samsung Jet was out&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finally had a choice of &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_i7500" title="Samsung i7500" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Samsung I7500 Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;, I5700 Spica and HTC Tattoo on the radar. When I had gone to the shop, I could not find I5700 Spica and the salesperson discouraged me from buying I7500 as there were too many complaints and many consumers have returned the phone back. I didn't personally like HTC Tattoo and I was left out with no choice again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So I decided to buy a stop-gap phone and bought Samsung Metro which was just INR 4,000. I was using it for 3-4 months and was very unhappy especially with the voice clarity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last week I came across this phone Sony Xperia X10 mini pro and I was quite impressed with it's specifications,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Android 1.6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;600 MHz processor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5 MP Camera with LED Flash&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3G, Wi-Fi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Touch &amp;amp; QWERTY&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Timescape included&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Very compact&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I didn't want to think too much this time as I easily get confused with the options. So visited the shop on Sunday and bought it in less than an hour.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am still searching for a good pouch and scratch resistance screen for my Xperia X10 mini pro before I start using it full time. I tried out accessing GMail and Facebook through the phone and it was fast and I could read the emails and messages without difficulty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hope I would find more time to explore the phone in the coming weeks!&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top:10px;height:15px"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=d06a270c-5684-4b2c-b409-6681a92b60e9" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" style="border:none;float:right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12168966-5540395560211669191?l=blog.mohanraj.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Thanks to Rajesh Setty who has given me an opportunity to announce about his new book to the world. I have been following his &lt;a href="http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; for more than a year and I love his writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has decided to make use of the blogs as one of the marketing medium for his recent book &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935073036"&gt;Upbeat&lt;/a&gt; and requested for volunteers on his site. I was one of the luckier people to get a chance to announce about the book to the world. And Rajesh has not asked for a free service; he has some goodies as gifts for taking part in the &lt;a href="http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/2009/06/12/upbeat-virtual-blog-tour-will-you-participate/"&gt;Virtual Blog Tour&lt;/a&gt;. Thus I am here to make an announcement about his book,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Gp8L9Zx54YM/Skmu2KKFm8I/AAAAAAAABEA/MEeqWsq9z78/s1600-h/upbeat-cover-final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Gp8L9Zx54YM/Skmu2KKFm8I/AAAAAAAABEA/MEeqWsq9z78/s400/upbeat-cover-final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353001877569379266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author Bio:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Gp8L9Zx54YM/SkmuqWA1_LI/AAAAAAAABD4/HccEx8RpvWs/s1600-h/rajesh-for-website.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Gp8L9Zx54YM/SkmuqWA1_LI/AAAAAAAABD4/HccEx8RpvWs/s320/rajesh-for-website.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353001674593402034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Rajesh’s mission in life is to bring good ideas to life. With love!&lt;br /&gt;Rajesh is involved in a &lt;a href="http://www.rajeshsetty.com/portfolio/"&gt;few companies&lt;/a&gt; in some combination as a founder, operating executive, board member and/or an investor. Apart from that, he has written a &lt;a href="http://www.rajeshsetty.com/interact/books/"&gt;few books&lt;/a&gt; and is working on a number of them. His first book was published at the age of thirteen. While he is not building companies or writing, he enjoys speaking at conferences and company events.&lt;br /&gt;You can read his latest thoughts on his blog &lt;a href="http://blog.lifebeyondcode.com/"&gt;Life Beyond Code&lt;/a&gt; or on Twitter at &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/UpbeatNow"&gt;UpbeatNow&lt;/a&gt;. If you are really curious to know the events that shaped his thinking, you can read his story so far &lt;a href="http://www.rajeshsetty.com/about/the-story-so-far/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Rajesh lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife Kavitha and son Sumukh&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12168966-4015387373264366926?l=blog.mohanraj.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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