Applying data warehousing principles to event processing

January 2, 2009

It is now pretty much agreed that in data warehousing environments you need a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture in order to handle very large data volumes. The important factor is that you have local processing close to each disk in order to improve performance rather than moving all of the data to a central point and then trying to process it.

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