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Phil Reviews 400PLO
Phil reviews his play from a four table session of 400PLO.
Phil at 5/10PLO (2)
Phil continues with part 2 of his recent session playing 5/10PLO.
Phil Galfond's 10/20 6m PLO
Phil reviews his play from a 10/20 PLO session on Stars.
Phil Galfond Spots PLO Leaks
Phil reviews a number of complicated hands and discovers a number of leaks.
Phil Galfond HU PLO Review (2)
Phil mentors Don on HU PLO.
Jman NL2PLO Episode One
Phil's 1st Episode in this series where he teaches NL players to transition to PLO.
Phil Galfond MidStakes HU PLO (4)
Phil demonstrates correct adjustments and exploits in HU MSPLO play.
Phil's Deep 3/6PLO (2)
Phil picks up where he left off in a review of his play at two deep 3/6 and two deep 1/2 tables!
Phil Galfond and Tough Regs (2)
Phil plays against some of the best regulars in the Stars 25/50 PLO game.
Phil 2tables 5/10 PLO
Phil reviews his play from a 2 table session of 5/10 PLO.


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Global financial meltdown and Caricom's public indebtedness
Guyana and the Wider World
Global financial meltdown
My efforts to draw readers' attention to the fact that the Third World Debt Crisis, which started 30 years ago in Mexico (and as I noted Guyana also) is alive and well today is by no means intended to diminish the magnitude of today's sovereign debt problems, which now centre on the First World economies. In my opinion, it is entirely justifiable today that this crisis should dominate both global media attention and international institutional responses. This state of affairs is attributable to the sheer size and importance of the affected First World economies, namely, Europe, Japan and the USA. In truth, the threats posed by their current debt crises are so severe that they strike at the very heart of the solvency, liquidity, and indeed survivability of the global financial system and economy.
Readers need to constantly keep in mind therefore that, at this historic juncture, the First World debt crisis poses the threat of systemic breakdown, not only to globalisation but indeed the very structure of the global capitalist system.
A useful example of this possibility can be interpreted from the media's rightful concerns over the unduly prolonged fiscal cliff crisis in the United States. As I write, this crisis has morphed into calls for deep government spending cuts at a time of hesitant economic recovery, and another repeat of the debt ceiling impasse. Early resolution of this complex situation has grave implications for the global economic and financial system, because of the weight and influence of the United States, as the world's leading economy. Economic and/or financial meltdown in the United States, despite the emergence of the formidable emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) as trading and financial centres, cannot prevent its rapid transmission to the rest of the world.
In my view, it remains true today that, as the metaphor goes, when the "United States sneezes, the rest of the world is at serious risk of catching a cold."
Readers may not also be fully aware that lurking behind the fiscal cliff, government spending cuts, and debt ceiling crises in the United States, is a dire banking situation. Since the global financial crisis erupted in late 2007 more than 460 United States' private banks have failed. The total value of the assets held by these failed banks is more than $680 billion. This situation compares with the failure of only 32 banks, in the preceding 5 years!
Globally, the private banking situation is equally bleak. Financial analysts are today claiming worldwide over 200 private banks are at risk; that is, they have regulatory authorities/credit bureaus ratings in the two lower tiers. The combined value of their assets is about US$45 trillion!
On top of all this, readers should also be aware of several major global banks having been recently caught and punished by regulators for fraudulent, corrupt, and other illegal activities. Indeed, there is a significant risk that others will soon to be similarly caught.
As examples, the huge transnational Swiss bank, UBS, has been hit with a fine of US$1.5 billion, by regulatory authorities for rigging the "fixings" of the London Interbank Overnight Rate (LIBOR).
The British bank, Barclays, was also fined US$0.5 billion. The German bank, Deutsche, is presently being investigated for tax evasion, accounting manipulation tied to derivatives, obstruction of justice, and other irregularities and illegalities. Further, several US banks have only this week been fined for the issuance of improper domestic mortgages.
It is my proposition here that, if one takes into account the severity of the banking crisis which undergirds the sovereign debt crises of the First World economies, it is difficult to exaggerate the contradictions presently facing the international financial system, globalisation, and indeed the global capitalist framework itself. In this alarming context, the ongoing Third World Debt Crisis adds to the global difficulties, and does not subtract from the First World Debt Crisis.
Caricom's public indebtedness
With the proviso discussed above, let me conclude by directing readers' attention once again to the TWDC. The table below shows the state of public indebtedness for Caricom countries, except Guyana, (which I shall examine separately). Placed in a wider global context, the information in the table informs us that at the end of 2011 Caricom was the most highly indebted region in the world, when measured on the basis of the public debt-to- GDP ratio!
Next week's column will begin with further observations of the state of Caricom's public indebtedness at December 31, 2011.
Can Guyana afford parking meters?
'Cities love meters – they are a "captive" income source. … unless you know someone or are a "public figure", the city will tow your car if you have too many tickets.
Government spending and the economy
Last week the Private Sector Commission (PSC) urged the government to increase its spending to stimulate the needed aggregate demand to sustain business activity.
Peru's president-elect demands freedoms in Venezuela
Peru's pro-business President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won his country's elections by a hair with the last-minute help of a leftist party, but — judging from what he told me in an interview — he won't budge on his criticism of Venezuela and other repressive regimes.
Public financial management: 1966 – present (Final)
This is the fifth and final in a series of articles on the above aimed at highlighting the extent of our achievements in the post-Independence period.
Massy and Guyana (Part 1)
Steadfast Last year, this writer looked at the Massy Group of Companies formerly Neal and Massy to gain an understanding of the operations of this company which has been doing business in Guyana for the past 48 years.
Value-added performance of the forest sub-sector: Erratic, weak, declining
Erratic Last week's column highlighted what I consider to be a most distinctive feature of the extractive forest sub-sector's performance in Guyana's economy, during the past decade.
The UK bids Europe farewell
On June 23 by a small majority, the British people voted to remove themselves from the European Union (EU). The decision has consequences for the Caribbean.
What would life be without sport?
I wonder what it would be like to exclude sport completely from one's life for, say, one year? No playing sport, no watching it, no reading it no discussing it no thinking about it even.

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Hello Fabiano, Great panorama of this very very historical and interesting city, Thanks for sharing, Best regards, Engin.
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Hi Costantino my friend, Thanks a lot for your kind comment on mine, and I see that you have a similar work (far better than mine). You have added the effect of colors, which i think blue, white and red suits very well together (may be that's why lot of nations use these colors in their flags?). Low upper-cut emphesizes reflectios more than the harbor, which makes a good impression for the wiever's eye. Nice elegant image, TFS. Have a great day, Selamlar (Greetings) Engin.
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Season 4, Episode 1 15 Chefs Compete
First Aired: April 5, 2008
Chef Gordon Ramsay returns for a fourth season of culinary torture, and this time it promises to be more personal than ever before: The winner from among the 15 chefs will get a job in an L.A restaurant owned by Ramsay himself. In the premiere, the 15 are divided into teams (men vs. women), but first they must prepare their "signature dishes." One offering makes Ramsay retch, but he does like several of the others. At the first dinner service, however, he doesn't like much of anything.
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The information surrounding Mind Of A Dragon is still as imperceptible as ever, and this new EP for Slime adds to the mystery in a delightful way. Even the tunes, a harsh blend of garage, bass and nu-skool jungle, are dusty and covered in a layer of mystique that gets our appetites going good and proper. "Emotions" itself is a powerful garage stormer with a those inimitable r&b samples and accompanied by an intricate percussion flex, The stand-out moment for us, though, is surely "Not The Same" simply for its woozy, shape-shifting bass and forward-thinking beat arrangement. A winner.
Calum Lee aka Paleman returns to Loefah's new 81 label, the more spontaneous, more digi-centric Swamp 81 offshoot, and as usual the man brings with him an air of innovation to the whole bass sphere. That's because "Yrs Ago" is a tune that could easily be played out in a techno set and, much like Boddika's recent output, it subtly ties the lines between many futuristic genres and sub-genres - a total winner! "Animus" is bleaker in texture and hollow in structure but nonetheless at the cutting-edge of UK bass music. Both tunes offer something less penetrable and more impressionistic that the majority of Paleman's compatriots in 2016. Excellent and highly recommended.
Sitting pretty in the triptych heat of halftime, jungle and bass, Nuvaman continues his fractured sermons on Artifice. Instant neck-snappery abounds on "Strength" as amens rifle back/forth/inside/out over dense pads. "Bada" is a more restrained piece of pensive drones and tones while "Throttle" gets up to speed with stark bass and a spacious two-step swing. Finally "Mutu" takes us back to bed with the trippiest low-end designs of the EP. Welcome to the future.
Hammer horror vibes: Dubzta takes us back to dubstep darker, gritty side with a staccato riff that marches with a few sense of doom. Laced with arpeggios and far-away cries, it's an instant screwface piece for any discerning dance. Remix-wise we're in for a treat as Project Allout provide no less than six versions. Highlights include Creep N00m's retained riff and subverted textures, the detuned tones and melodic twist of Filthy Gears' remix and the humour of John Brown The Rebel's version. Ice cold.
U Wot Blud are always ahead of the game and although many have moved on since last year's instalment of the Rising Stars series, they've not stayed still either. This third volume shows us a whole new side to the UWB sound, which if not exactly 'sensitive', is certainly showing a kind of newfound maturity. The dancefloor is still their main priority of course, and the two 4/4 techy electro-house bangers by Aliii ("Artifice", "Blackmail") totally capture that spirit. Elsewhere highlights include scattershot tropicalia and bouncy bass of "You Went" by TK Vicious and the pounding future-jack-fest of "Redshift" by Lycid.
UK grime maestro Terror Danjah has been smashing it ever since his first EPs started to emerge in the early 2000s, and we have to say that the man hasn't stopped rinsing it since. Among other big labels, he's been an integral part of London's Hyperdub unit, but the time has come to spill some truth on the respected Keysound label and here he is with "Juicy Patty", a vocal-led gunshot riddim that literally sounds as if it was recorded straight on the curbside; jacking, stop-start beats and a minimal arrangement make this a true London burner. There's an instrumental mix, too, for the DJs, but the first remix comes from Logos, who shreds the entire structure down and focusses heavily on the percussion, followed by Blackdown's louder, more menacing interpretation for the peak time hours.
Stanton Warriors were pleasantly surprised when a demo from Brazil arrived on their doorstep. The demo was from none other than Bombo Rosa, possibly Brazil's only break beat-style act, and so impressed were the Warriors that they signed the guys to their very own Punks label. Their first release for them, Make It Bang, is a jaw-dropping short, sharp introductory jab in the solar plexus. Sounding like nothing else around right now, the track is four and a half minutes of stop-start dirty breaks with a red blooded Latin twist. A dancefloor monster if ever we heard one!
Russian dubstep producer Sqz Me makes some emotive and haunting deep dubstep we must say. "Beautiful" samples Justin Timberlake's vocals put through harsh redux that wail over layers of smoky pads and powerful bass pulsations. "Inner Place" is minimal and glacial, like getting vaped and going on an Arctic expedition.Closing this thing out is "Missin Element" which reminds us a bit of bass music classics like "Hyph Mngo" and is absolutely sublime. This young Siberian producer is definitely one to watch out for in 2016.
The (Re)Sources label is still relatively young in terms of releases and artists, but they've already instilled a sense of reliability from our viewpoint, particularly for the diversity AND quality of their output, whether that be house, techno, or straight-up bass. This is their first compilation yet, an eight-track spew of all sorts of forward-thinking beats named Club Hexagon Vol.1. Chaams' opener is a twisted pile of bass and morphing samples, and other stand-outs include the techno-minded "Diamonds Foot" by Sheas Drunk, Tommy Kid's gunshot ride "Shanghai", and the moody, deep bass weight of "Bloom Doom" by John Vitesse. Hold tight for the second chapter!
Liminal Sounds associate Copout bursts through Purple Tape Pedigree like a man with a mission...and with four devastating firebombs that cover all sorts of bass spectrums. "Helix" opens with a pseudo grime swagger, only to be swallowed whole by the more electrifying industrial weight of "Stressed". "Fallen" is pure UK bass, a tune that refuses to find any one genre and instead shifts and morphs continuously; this is followed by the eerie presence that is "Enough", a rather foreboding sort of tune that only the heads will appreciate on the dance floor.
Stanton Warriors are busy firing out one track missives at the moment, with each single release on their Punks imprint packing more of a punch than most other four track singles out there. Marten Horger's "Deeper Down" was already pretty fierce proposition, but now Slovakia's Macho has got his hands on it and now no dancefloor really is safe anymore! Macho actually won a remix commotion with this effort and we're not surprised - starting out with some seriously tough ghetto beats, the track evolves into total hands-in-the-air piano house territory and crucially does so with ease, rather than cheese.
So you think you're up on all things bass, eh? Don't worry, if you've yet to discover the wonders of 'Beijing bass' though, because the Do Hits label are here to educate and inform. Do Hits Vol 4 collects 13 truly unique jams that seductively blend the old and new - traditional Chinese instrumentation and ultra-modern hip-hop influenced beats. Highlights include Jason Hou and inner Mongolian multi-instrumentalist Yider's distorted digital electronica "Data Forest", Jyun Jyun's panpipe electro pop workout "Fire Monkey" and the futuristic neon strip club grooves of "Yin Kou Chi Nyu" by Duanger. Welcome to the future.
Liminal Sounds introduces Orlando Volcano to the bass world, another talented newcomer with more beats than sense. Throughout this expansive five-tracker, Volcano touches on pretty much all corners of the bass spectrum; from the opening bleeps and chirps of "My Dream Life", you can instantly hear that this isn't a disposable dance EP, and even the more rhythmic tunes like "Mixed Messages" are filled with interesting outsider electronic and wonderfully crafted curve-balls. "Gold Bars Rhythm" would make any grime DJ salivate non-stop, while "The Mantis" offers a stringer percussive muscle, and "Final Exhalation" enters the realm of the sinister with its horror soundtrack approach. A diverse and provocative effort from this interesting newbie.
Badboy bass deviant Bazza has been out of the picture since 2013, but this tidy two-tracker on Triangulum Recordings is sure to turn more than a few head his way. "Dead Caller", for instance, is dark, grimey and holds absolutely nothing back; a large swarm of fuzzy bass devours anything in its way, namely a set of loose vocals and stabs of the synth. "Black Edge" is more ripped to shreds in terms of structure, but that sullen, urban flavour is still very much part of its core formula. Dutty!
Debutant Half Normal produces music that's just as deranged as him name implies. These three twisted slices of neural bass funk come courtesy of the young and daring Lifted Contingency imprint, a label that seems to be getting bigger and badder with each single. "The Secret" is a deep, rolling bass melter that flutters its Eastern chimes amid pouncing kicks, and "Salt Of The Earth" follows suit thanks to morphing low frequencies, but "Elk Hide" is where Half Normal really sinks deep into the mix by injecting a tenebrous layer of chilling harmonics and cut-throat sonics.
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; The Super Bowl XXXV commercials, from pleasant surprises to whose idea was this.
By Stuart Elliot
Published: January 30, 2001
AS the biggest day of the year for advertising unfolded on Sunday, the sage advice of that renowned marketing expert Gomer Pyle could be heard echoing across Madison Avenue: ''Surprise, surprise!''
Many of the 54 paid commercials from 30 advertisers that ran nationally during Super Bowl XXXV relied on unexpected twists, particularly surprise endings, to elicit attention from the audience watching some or all of the game on CBS. The network estimated viewership at more than 131 million, down only slightly from last year despite the lopsided results (quoth the Ravens, ''Never score'').
Surprise is just one element of the formula used to entice consumers to watch a typical Super Bowl commercial; other mainstays include animals, celebrities, humor and special effects. This time, though, small shocks dominated TV screens as if creative directors had pored over the collected works of O. Henry or watched a ''Twilight Zone'' marathon before developing their Super Sunday ideas.
Undoubtedly the biggest surprise was the generally lackluster quality of the commercials, despite the enormous amounts of money and time spent to produce and run them. Too many were dull or dreary. Some spots were confusing enough to require repeated viewings to get the point -- and who besides advertising columnists ever bother to do that? Other commercials were tasteless, even borderline racist.
Still, when users of America Online were asked on the AOL welcome screen to vote whether the game or the advertising was more interesting, the advertising was well ahead of the game as of yesterday afternoon, 61.3 percent to 38.7 percent. And three of the four spots they voted as favorites had one surprise or another as part of the plots.
What follows is an assessment of some of the paid national spots, for which advertisers spent a record average of $2.3 million for each 30 seconds of commercial time.
AMERICAN LEGACY FOUNDATION -- Both commercials to discourage smoking that were sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation used surprise endings, but the second was far more powerful than the first. The first spot ended with the ''reveal,'' in ad parlance, that the message is being delivered by a hospital patient using an electrolarynx. The second, in which a husband lamented the death of his wife at 46 from smoking, concluded with his somber words, ''I guess I never thought of 23 as middle-aged.'' Agency: Arnold Worldwide, part of the Arnold Worldwide Partners unit of Havas Advertising.
ANHEUSER-BUSCH -- The first commercial of the game, in which a comedian named Cedric the Entertainer surprised his date with a faceful of foam from an overshaken bottle of Bud Light beer, set the tone for all that followed. The spot was amusing even if, unlike Cedric's date, you knew what was coming.
That could not be said for an awful commercial for Bud Light, centered on a crude surprise ending involving a pencil. It was the second year in a row that Anheuser-Busch resorted to a vulgar punch line about a posterior, only this one was aggravated by the inclusion of a stereotyped depiction of the Japanese.
As for the two newest iterations of the long-running ''Whassup?'' campaign for Budweiser beer, one was a hit, the other a miss. The better one showed an alien spy returning home to reveal what he ''learned on Earth'' -- a certain one-word catch phrase, natch. The humor was reinforced with a funny surprise ending, as a technician monitoring space transmissions, hearing the aliens all shouting ''Whassup?,'' declares approvingly, ''Oh, man, we are not alone!''
The other one featured the ''Whassup?'' guys, who are black, reacting incredulously to a passel of (white) preppies repeating their own version of the phrase, ''What are you doing?'' The true joke would have been to show what has really happened since ''Whassup?'' entered the vernacular: whites who want to be perceived as hip-hop hipsters shouting ''Whassup?'' to each other in what they think are black speech patterns. Agencies: DDB Chicago, part of the DDB Worldwide unit of the Omnicom Group, and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, also part of Omnicom.
CINGULAR WIRELESS -- The first commercial to promote Cingular Wireless, a joint venture of BellSouth and SBC Communications, presented dance as a metaphor for self-expression. If the message did not sink in sufficiently, the second spot for Cingular did the same, minus the humor of the first, which charmed viewers with football players strutting their stuff at a make-believe ''touchdown dance school.''
The third commercial was the standout, featuring Dan Keplinger, an artist with cerebral palsy who was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, ''King Gimp.'' The spot, showing his painful struggles to paint and speak, ended with a message as uplifting as it was startling, as he proclaims, ''I'm unbelievably lucky.'' Agency: BBDO New York, owned by Omnicom.
E*TRADE GROUP -- A commercial for the E*Trade Group was the most effective, hardest working spot of the game -- and also the most surprising. The commercial brought back a monkey character the company used in a spot last year to slyly reference the fact that E*Trade was one of only three dot-com advertisers to return from Super Bowl XXXIV, making the point that consumers ought to ''invest wisely.''


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Traditional RDBMS & New Data Processing
Over the past two decades relational databases have been most successful in serving large-scale OLTP and OLAP applications across enterprises. However, in the past couple of years with the advent of Big Data processing, especially processing unstructured data coupled with the need for processing massive quantities of data, the industry started to look into non RDBMS solutions. This has lead into the popularity of NoSQL databases as well as massively parallel processing frameworks.
However the traditional RDBMS has been quick to react and added several Big Data features as part of their offering such that the enterprises with the heavy investment of traditional RDBMS can have best of both worlds by properly leveraging these new features.
The following sections provide idea about big data features in the popular DB2 Databases, a similar analysis will be performed against Oracle also in a later article. Please refer to my earlier article on Five Big Data Features in SQL Server.
1. DB2 Text Search
DB2 Text Search provides extensive capabilities for searching data in text columns stored in a DB2 table. The search system provides fast query response times and a consolidated, ranked result set that enables you to quickly and easily locate the information that you need. By incorporating the functions of DB2 Text Search in your SQL and XQuery statements, you can create powerful and versatile text-retrieval programs.
DB2 Text Search works by collecting data from diverse sources and indexing it for subsequent fast retrieval. DB2 Text Search uses linguistic analysis to improve search results and supports the following document formats:
- Unstructured plain text.
- Structured text such as that in HTML or XML documents
- Proprietary document formats such as PDF or Microsoft Office document formats.
We can perform various kinds of searches like,
- Basic Search : Using Boolean Operators and Modifiers
- Fuzzy Search : Using words with similar spelling to search term
- Proximity Search : A proximity search retrieves documents that contain search words which are located within a specified distance from each other.
- SCORE Search : We use the SCORE function to find out the extent to which a document matches a search document.
DB2® Text Search provides dictionary packs to support the linguistic processing of documents and queries. In addition, n-gram segmentation is supported for languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. As an alternative to dictionary-based word segmentation, the search engine provides an option to select n-gram segmentation for languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is evident from the use cases and patterns on Big Data without such features on natural language processing much of the insights like sentiment analysis cannot be fruitful.
2. Partitioned Databases
MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) frame works like Hadoop are found to be well suited for processing large quantities of data due to their Shared Nothing Architecture and the ability to process data in parallel. DB2 on Unix/Windows is the pioneer in implementing such a concept using the partitioned database option.
A partitioned database environment is a database installation that supports the distribution of data across database partitions. Because data is distributed across database partitions, you can use the power of multiple processors on multiple physical machines to satisfy requests for information. Data retrieval and update requests are decomposed automatically into sub-requests, and executed in parallel among the applicable database partitions. The fact that databases are split across database partitions is transparent to users issuing SQL statements. Interpartition parallelism refers to the ability to break up a query into multiple parts across multiple partitions of a partitioned database, on one machine or multiple machines. The query is run in parallel. Some DB2 utilities also perform this type of parallelism.
In support of Unstructured Big Data processing, DB2 Text Search explained earlier is integrated with the partitioned database environment. DB2® Text Search supports full-text search in a partitioned database environment. Text search indexes are distributed in a pattern that matches the base tables on which they are created. For each database partition, a text index partition, also called a collection, is created. This pattern facilitates text search maintenance by allowing text search index updates with parallel execution on all index partitions.
3. Pure XML
The pureXML® feature allows you to store well-formed XML documents in database table columns that have the XML data type. By storing XML data in XML columns, the data is kept in its native hierarchical form, rather than stored as text or mapped to a different data model.
There is no architectural limit on the size of an XML value in a database. An index over XML data can be used to improve the efficiency of queries on XML documents that are stored in an XML column. In contrast to traditional relational indexes, where index keys are composed of one or more table columns you specify, an index over XML data uses a particular XML pattern expression to index paths and values in XML documents stored within a single column. The data type of that column must be XML.
In partitioned database environments, tables containing XML columns can be stored in multi-partition databases. In DB2 latest version, the pureXML feature is supported in partitioned database environments. With both features tightly integrated, pureXML customers can distribute XML data across multiple database partitions and parallelize XML queries for better performance, while partitioned database environments customers can deploy pureXML for new business applications.
The above combination of processing large XML documents in a parallel environment make a best case for DB2 used for big data processing.
4. DB2 Federation
One of the important needs of big data processing is the need to connect to multiple disparate data sources and bring the best out of them. Enterprises no longer can afford to have a single common data store for all their data processing needs.
In DB2 a federated system is a type of distributed database management system that you can use to access data sources across your enterprise. As documented in the IBM Documentation site, DB2 federation support almost all kinds of structured and unstructured data sources. In particular there is support for flat files, Microsoft Excel and VSAM files.
One interesting component of DB2 federation is, the support for connecting to Netezza DB. Netezza is the high performance data warehouse appliance . IBM® Netezza® Analytics is an embedded, purpose-built, advanced analytics platform .
5. Pure Scale
While the Shared Nothing Architecture has been a standard for many massively parallel processing environments, there are successful architectures using Shared Disk model too. The major examples being the IBM's Mainframe Parallel SYSPLEX and Oracle Real Application Clusters.
With the DB2 pureScale Feature, scaling your database solution is simple. Multiple database servers, known as members, process incoming database requests; these members operate in a clustered system and share data. You can transparently add more members to scale out to meet even the most demanding business needs. There are no application changes to make, data to redistribute, or performance tuning to do. The IBM® DB2® pureScale® Feature, much like a multi-partition database environment, provides a scalable and highly available database solution. However, the instance type and data layout of a DB2 pureScale environment and a multi-partition database environment are different.
A DB2 pureScale environment is ideal for short transactions where there is little need to parallelize each query. Queries are automatically routed to different members, based on member workload. While this is not a ideal work load in a Big Data processing scenario , but Big Data Environments do invest on options like Hbase, Cassandra to process short transactions.
Traditional high performance RDBMS like DB2 have their strengths. They are very strong in maintaining the data integrity and quality in the form of constraints, foreign keys and other validation mechanisms. They are also strong in transactional integrity by providing superior locking model, automatic dead lock resolution etc.. However initially they are not found to adjust to Big Data processing needs of enterprises.
With the enhancements in the products made by respective vendors, now databases like DB2 have been enhanced with big data processing features and makes them the best candidate for enterprises looking for best of the breed features between traditional RDBMS and Big Data processing systems, and to leverage the best of existing investments.
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