For those of you were putting your eggs in the Quickshift basket, you'd better have a backup plan because the rumor I hear is that they just went under.
Quickshift was a company that developed a memory compression technology that was supposed to revolutionize the database world by increasing server performance by orders of magnitude. I figured they had some problems getting things off the ground, but when I met with the CEO earlier this year, it sounded like things were going to be ok for them. I guess the SQL world just isn't ready to be shifted that direction.
There is a place for memory compression though. IBM uses memory compression to offset the overhead from their new row-level data compression in Viper. I think there will continue to be a use for compression technology, but as we see here, it's going to have to be used sparingly.
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Posted by Sean McCown on April 20, 2006 03:23 PM
