Databases

This talk introduces geospatial features added to Ingres for Ingres 10.1 and provides a glimpse at the roadmap for Ingres geospatial.

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Ingres Corp. has entered into a relationship with the Dutch database research company VectorWise to develop a very high performance database organization enabled through the Ingres open source dbms. This session discusses the innovations incorporated in the VectorWise technology, as well as the relationship between VectorWise, Ingres Corp. and the Ingres dbms.

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Emma McGratten and Joe Kronk provide a summary of work done during the code sprint that took place at the IUA UK conference in June 2010.

Location

Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt demonstrates Ingres VectorWise in public for the first time at the IUA UK conference in London.

VectorWise uses column storage, vector processing, optimized use of CPU cache, and other techniques to yield substantial performance advantage for processing analytic data when compared with typical relational database technology today. The results are impressive. [full disclosure: I work for Ingres]