Oracle has often used self-driving cars as the metaphor for explaining what its autonomous database is. With the new release of Autonomous Data Warehouse, Oracle is changing the subject.

The Impala-based Cloudera Analytic Database is now Cloudera Data Warehouse. And on the PaaS cloud side, it's Altus Data Warehouse. No more euphemisms. Cloudera's in the DW race.

The most established column store database in the market is Sybase IQ, which fitted nicely with the existing data warehouse on Sybase ASE. Based on the choices the client chose to go with a ...