by Erik Bransberg | May 3, 2018 | VMware Greenplum
Problem When working with massive amounts of data, an MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture allows many compute nodes to process segments of the data individually before aggregating the results together. However, interactive applications have lower latency...
by Erik Bransberg | Apr 16, 2018 | Other
Today we have released build 18.4.16.1, which also marks our first LTS (Long Term Support) build. This marks an exciting transition for us, as we have been adding features at such a pace until now that we haven’t been able to really contemplate being able to do...
by Erik Bransberg | Feb 28, 2018 | Other
Automated Postgres Failover and Caching, with no code changes Thursday, March 8, 2018, 10am PDT Register Now Join us next Thursday for a discussion with Postgres community leader, Joshua Drake (“JD”) and Heimdall Data CTO, Erik Brandsberg on...
by Erik Bransberg | Dec 11, 2017 | Security
Privacy Compliance Today Since HIPAA was enacted in 1996, it has added requirements for personal data security that has changed US healthcare security in dramatic ways. Healthcare providers must transition from being reactive (i.e. when data leakage occurs), to being...
by Erik Bransberg | Dec 6, 2017 | Web Scale
Scaling databases today can take two approaches. The first and simplest is vertical scaling which relies on larger database servers to process more requests in parallel. While simple to implement, this approach eventually reaches a limit, either due to disk or...
