CMS Wire

Oracle Iron vs. SAP HANA: Will the Battle for Big Data & Analytics Play Out Like Reality TV? #oow

Now that the Jersey Shore is in its final season and we’ve become desensitized to the catfights on the Housewives of Wherever series, how about a reality show featuring the rivalries in Enterprise ...
PC World

Oracle Updates TimeTen In-memory Database, Aims at SAP HANA

Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP’s HANA platform.
Computerworld

SAP’s Sikka fires back against Oracle’s ‘falsehoods’ about HANA

SAP’s technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP’s HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of “falsehoods.” The ...
CMS Wire

SAP HANA Changes the Game - A Win for its Customers, Maybe Not for Oracle, Microsoft, IBM

Larry Ellison probably didn’t sleep well last night. Same for his buddy Mark Hurd. I can picture the two of them sitting in a locked office at Oracle’s headquarters, earlier in the day, wringing their ...
Computing

Oracle president hits out at those who compare Oracle DB 12c in-memory with SAP HANA

Oracle president Mark Hurd appeared riled this afternoon on the subject of SAP HANA when, asked how yesterday's in-memory processing offering for Oracle Database 12c, he replied that customers ...