{"id":212,"date":"2007-02-15T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2007-02-15T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T19:21:31","slug":"search-next-generation-rdbms-structured-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/search-next-generation-rdbms-structured-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Search: Next-generation RDBMS Structured Search"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search technology advances have been capturing top headlines on a nearly daily basis.\u00a0 From our perspective<\/a>, the evolution of tools in the Enterprise Search space is what is driving all the excitement.\u00a0 That includes offerings from FAST<\/a>, Autonomy<\/a> Endeca<\/a>, and more recently initiatives from IBM\/Yahoo<\/a>, Google<\/a>, Powerset<\/a>, and many many others.<\/p>\n

The current focus\u00a0clearly has been on search over unstructured data.\u00a0 Comparatively, search over structured data\u00a0using relational database systems hasn’t really changed that much.\u00a0 Of course Open Source companies like MySQL<\/a> are changing the relational database market dynamics.\u00a0 Products like Oracle’s<\/a> TimesTen<\/a> realtime database and Oracle’s BerkeleyDB<\/a>\u00a0embedded database are pushing the limits of the relational database.\u00a0 And work<\/a> like what Formtek’s<\/a> partner Dynatrek<\/a> is doing in the area of federated structured searches is interesting too.\u00a0 But the data storage techniques and algorithms of relational systems haven’t changed that much.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting now is what Vertica<\/a> is doing in RDBMS.\u00a0 Michael StoneBreaker<\/a>, Vertica’s CTO and chief architect behind the INGRES and POSTGRES databases, is pioneering a new concept in RDBMS called a ‘column-oriented’ RDBMS.\u00a0 The new technique is well suited for applications like data warehousing, compliance, and business intelligence.<\/p>\n

Vertica has raised $23.5+ million and yesterday\u00a0named<\/a> Oracle SVP Jerry Held as Chairman.\u00a0 Ray Lane, former Oracle Vice President, is also an investor in the company.<\/p>\n

The new architecture<\/a> allows Vertica’s database to be ultrafast<\/a>, allowing even ad hoc queries over terabyte-sized databases\u00a0to be speedy.\u00a0 With innovators like Vertica, structured search may become interesting again.<\/p>\n

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Search technology advances have been capturing top headlines on a nearly daily basis.\u00a0 From our perspective, the evolution of tools in the Enterprise Search space is what is driving all the excitement.\u00a0 That includes offerings from FAST, Autonomy Endeca, and…<\/span><\/p>\n

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