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The 100GB VectorWise TPC-H benchmark has been out for a few days now, and it's already had a bit of attention in spite of the fact that the official media blitz hasn't started yet.

The TPC-H benchmark is the official, audited version of the DBT-3 benchmark I've been writing about, with the addition that it does some updates too.

There are a few interesting things I notice in the results. First and foremost the official results are very much in line with what we were...

It's been about a month since I last posted anything about VectorWise. I have been rather distracted by the UK IUA conference on June 8, normal everyday work, life, but mostly by the project that I am writing about today.

This project started after I (frankly) hit the wall with the machine I've been writing about in my earlier postings. It was nice and fast for what it was, but some off-line emails made it clear people were less interested in breathing new life into systems assembled...

Most of my limited free time over the last two weeks has been used up with organizing the annual UK IUA conference. The UK IUA has always been totally independent of Ingres Corporation (and its precursors), and it has to fund the conferences itself. Until you've run a conference like ours you can have no idea how phenomenally expensive it can be. We've seen conference costs of well over £35,000 in past years.

To try to stage an affordable event in these tough times we have done...

Since I last wrote anything I have upgraded to the 104 build of VectorWise 1.0, which includes a number of bug fixes.

In the comments on a previous post Dejan Lekic asked about how VectorWise handles concurrent users. I am now looking into that, so this is the first of what I expect will be a series of posts on the subject. In this one I am mainly just explaining my approach to this question.

All computer systems saturate at some point. A system is saturated when...