Some people have described Hasso Plattner’s visionary speech at Sapphire earlier this month, “as the beginning of the end of the relational database as the mainstay of enterprise computing” (http://tinyurl.com/o8j3sz). In his keynote titled “The Power of Speed”, Plattner, SAP Chairman and co-founder, focused on the need for new software that enables business to move much faster and change the way work is done. He stated that companies today collect “unbelievable amounts of data,” (noting that the average SAP customer has seven to 10 years’ worth of data on disk) and that “how we digest that data is slow, and it’s getting slower because of the increased sizes of databases.” 

When someone of Hasso Plattner’s stature weighs in, the industry listens. What does his vision of the future of software look like? He cited the following characteristics:

• Columnar storage
• Highly compressed, clustered data
• Enabled by multi-core processors
• Runs on commodity hardware
• Instant access to every question you have

Couldn’t have said it better myself…

At SenSage, we’re driven by this vision. SenSage’s breakthrough technology advantage is the use of our patented, columnar database across clusters of commodity servers, storage, and networking along with pre-built, highly targeted solutions. Even better, Mr. Plattner, one of SenSage’s flagship solutions delivers a 360 degree view of SAP user activity at dramatically lower costs than comparable Teradata or columnar-based solutions.

Maybe his talk was really the “end of the beginning” of columnar data warehouse solutions achieving equal status within the enterprise.

Jim

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