Exasol

Getting started with Exasol – Distribution keys

After the previous posts about Exasol, which have been more around installation, administration, backup & restore, loading data and general notes around transactions and sessions we'll now go into more details how Exasol manages data. Here is the list of(…)

Getting started with Exasol – A multi node cluster in AWS

As of now, all the previous posts worked with the Community Edition of Exasol. While that is great for getting started quickly (the Community Edition comes with all the features, except multi node support and a(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Backup and restore (2)

In the previous post we did the groundwork for being able to backup the Exasol database to an S3 bucket. We learned that you can do full level 0 backups and of top of that you(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Backup and restore (1)

Now that we have a system with a proper network setup we can take a look at how backup and restore works in Exasol. Without being able to restore and recover your database, you for sure(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Installation from ISO

Initially I wanted to write about Backup and Restore of Exasol databases but I quickly ran into issues, and this is the reason why this post is coming first. When you import the Exasol Community OVA as described(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Sessions and auditing

This is the fourth post in the series about Exasol and this time it is about sessions and auditing. If you are interested in the previous posts you can find them here: Getting started with Exasol(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Some words about indexes and transactions

If you followed Getting started with Exasol – Setting up an environment and Getting started with Exasol – Loading data from PostgreSQL you should have an Exasol test system up and running(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Loading data from PostgreSQL

In the first post of this series we brought up an Exasol test system to have something to play with. Because playing without data is a bit boring this post is about loading data from PostgreSQL(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Setting up an environment

Exasol is an in memory database with parallel processing, or shorter MPP(Massively Parallel Processing) database. I got in touch with some people from Exasol at the DOAG 2019(…)