Quasar - Index Acceleration Architecture
Redefining Real-Time: Database Technology for Large Data Sets
Though there have been tremendous advances in database technology in the past decade,one problem still eludes a solution.
Databases can be designed and configured to either load huge volumes of data very quickly,or
provide high levels of concurrency and fast response time to queries,but not both.
Quasar - Database Acceleration For Data Warehousing Applications
Written by Neil Raden, Hired Brains Research
As the role of data warehouses continues to evolve,the key issue of performance needs to be revisited.Originally
conceived as repositories of accumulated historical data, updated periodically and queried only after all updates,
indexing,aggregation and subsetting were performed, data warehouses today are facing an increasingly mixed
usage profile.