QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
by Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover
Chapter 1. Performance Tuning and Scalability
"The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience."
— Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, 1995
The way Moore's Law has benefitted QlikView is really unprecedented amongst other BI systems.
QlikView began life in 1993 in Lund, Sweden. Originally titled "QuickView", they had to change things when they couldn't obtain a copyright on that name, and thus "QlikView" was born.
After years of steady growth, something ...
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