10 Products That Exploit Parallelism
Maybe the last time you heard the word “parallel,” before all the Hadoop MapReduce ballyhoo, was in geometry classes at school. Nowadays, however, the word seems to pepper a good deal of tech talk. Remember when the words “scale out” suddenly became a feature of all new database products? That was a parallelism thing. And if you investigate it, you’ll find it was pre-Hadoop. It all began in earnest when x86 CPUs began having multiple cores in 2004.
Esteemed analyst Robin Bloor describes his group’s view of the whole IT industry, which “willy-nilly is now going parallel”, and includes SQLstream as one of the top 10 products exploiting parallelism.