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Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

By Merv Adrian on September 18, 2010

Aster Data has announced its new version, nCluster 4.6, which now includes a column data store, staking a claim as the first ADBMS to combine SQL and MapReduce on a hybrid row and column MPP system. While its R&D has hitherto been focused on enabling advanced in-database analytic processing in its flagship “Data-Analytics Server, ” […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster, column stores, data compression, data modeling, fault tolerance, hybrid multistores, indexing, Industry Trends, mapreduce, MPP, nCluster, partitioning, SQL, statistical analysis, time series, UDF

Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.

Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.

By Merv Adrian on August 24, 2010

I’ve posted twice about TDWI’s San Diego event, and I still haven’t exhausted the thoughts I wanted to share. That’s a measure of just how important and successful I think the show was. Three things jumped out at me: The audience is back, and it’s ready to spend. The event was buzzing; I was told […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Agile, Agile BI, Aster, BI, business intelligence, Eclipse, IDE, Industry Trends, mapreduce, TDWI, Wherescape RED

TDWI Event Focuses on Agile BI. What’s That?

TDWI Event Focuses on Agile BI. What’s That?

By Merv Adrian on August 16, 2010

I’m at the Data Warehouse Institute’s San Diego conference this week, and experimenting with an incremental approach to blogging for this event; I’ll try to get on a few times in the next 2 days (unfortunately that’s all the time I’ll have here) and communicate some quick thoughts, as opposed to my more typical style, […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged ADBMS, Agile, Agile BI, Aster, BI, business intelligence, Eclipse, IDE, Industry Trends, mapreduce, TDWI, Wherescape RED | 4 Responses

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

By Merv Adrian on July 6, 2010

EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, AIX, Aster, blades, business intelligence, Cloud, core, CPU, data integration, data load, Data Warehousing, Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Documentum, EMC, ETL, Exadata, Exasol, Greenplum, Hardware platforms, hp, ibm, indexing, Industry Trends, Java, Kickfire, Linux, mdm, microsoft, MPP, multicore, Netezza, NoSQL, NUMA, Open source, oracle, PADB, ParAccel, Postgres, PostgreSQL, rack, RDBMS, sap, Solaris, Sun, Sybase, Teradata, TPC, TPC-H, unisys, Vendor image and communications, Virtual Machine, VM, VMware, vSphere, windows | 2 Responses

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