The material covered on the first 13 slides should be very familiar to readers of this blog. I touched on database diversity and the disk-speed barrier, after which I zoomed through a quick survey of the data warehouse DBMS market. But then I turned to material I've been working on more recently - practical advice directly on the subject of how to buy an analytic DBMS.
I started by proposing a seven-part segmentation self-assessment:
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