We will discuss some recent history and current trends around analytic relational technologies. Topics to be briefly covered include: Columnar Analytic Databases, SQL on Hadoop, cloud centric deployments and problems of scale. We will also discuss approximate query processing as one of the main approaches to dealing with scale.

ABOUT SPEAKER:

Rick has been working in the database industry for over 20 years. He has worked to build some of the largest deployed data warehouses in the World. He spent 17 years with Teradata where he served as the CTO of Database Engineering. His Teradata career spans back to 1991 when he was one of Teradata™s first professional services employees hired to work on the noted Wal-Mart account in Bentonville. After Teradata he was the VP of Technology and Architecture for ParAccell - a Columnar MPP database that currently provides the RDBMS technology behind Amazon's Redshift. Most recently he is cooperating with Infobright working on parallel processing and approximate query techniques.