Do good, Do well and TO-DO
First, the good news…
- TPC-D has improved products
- First real quantification of optimizer performance for some vendors
- TPC-D has increased competition
Then some areas that bear watching…
- Workload is maturing; indexing and query fixes are giving way to engineering
- SMP/MPP price barrier is disappearing, but so is some of the performance difference
- Meta knowledge of the data is becoming critical: better stats, smarter optimizers, wiser data placement