Oracle-L: Re:HyperRoll Experience (http://www.hyperroll.com)

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 07:24:21 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00542152.20030203072421@fatcity.com>

Babu,

Hadn't ever heard of the tool. Funny that they're listing a visit to IOUG-A, but have never been mentioned in the Oracle or Select mag's. Anyway, I looked the site over and it is "interesting" at best. We have a similar though not identical product from Cognos called PowerPlay. As I read their web site, they extract the data from the database, create the analog of Oracle's Materialized views, and then allow the database, via ODBC aka Oracle's Heterogeneous services, to query their proprietary database. Kinda of makes you wonder why you spend all that money on Oracle in the first place!! At least PowerPlay does not act as a database add-on. You extract the data from the database into one of their CUBES that you then access from their proprietary front end.

Personal opinion (no reflection on the opinions of the management or anyone else here at Vicor) is that it's just an expensive add-on to the database that really speaks to a need for a better designed database in the first place. It looks to me like a case of throwing money at a problem in the hopes that it will go away.

Dick Goulet

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Author: babu.nagarajan_at_Cummins.com
Date:       2/3/2003 5:08 AM

All

Have any of you worked with this product that is supposed to improve the performance of a RDBMS or a OLAP database... Damagement heard about this product form somewhere and wants us to investigate...

Any feedback is appreciated..

TIA Babu

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