最近大数据概念非常火热,各个厂家都讲大数据视为未来IT的一个重要方向,因此各个厂家都想在这个领域有所作为。前几天参加了IBM大数据研讨会,会上IBM推出了他们针对于大数据的解决方案,三种一体机(PureSystem,另外IBM在推出了DB2 v10,为了打Oracle RAC专门设计的PureScale正式加入了DB2大版本中)。
在MPP架构方面,以前微软是被诟病的,缺乏产品应对大数据的挑战。之后从网上查了一下发现微软从2008 R2之后也发布了MPP数据仓库架构,并且在今年会推出自己的一体机。
针对于SQL Server PDW机构,有一篇文章讲的非常详细,大家有兴趣可以看一下:(文章来源于:http://www.jamesserra.com/archive/2011/08/microsoft-sql-server-parallel-data-warehouse-pdw-explained/)
Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), formally called by its code name “Project Madison”, is an edition of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 that was released in December 2010. PDW is Microsoft’s reworking of the DatAllegro Inc. massive parallel processing (MPP) product that Microsoft acquired in July 2008. It only works with certain hardware (two so far), the first of which is HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance (Dell is the other, with a couple more to come in the near future: IBM and Bull). This edition of SQL Server can’t be bought as an independent pi