Metanautix Introduces Quest

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 8 — Metanautix, a big data analytics company focused on simplifying the data supply chain, today announced the general availability of Metanautix Quest, the industry’s first data compute engine that enables rapid decisions using all your data assets regardless of type, size, or location. Metanautix Quest re-imagines traditional SQL, marrying the language’s high-level functionality with distributed computing technology. Metanautix Quest provides an intuitive way to ask questions of disparate data sources and offers increased visibility into data pipelines.

Metanautix Quest allows analysts to easily access and combine data from disparate silos into easy-to-understand tables — whether the data is records, logs, documents, audio files, images, or videos. The solution works within an organization’s existing toolset and doesn’t require data be moved to a centralized system. Metanautix Quest simplifies and speeds-up data analysis for more effective collaboration, governance, security, privacy and compliance.

“Quest is allowing us to analyze hundreds of millions of records in the electricity markets, hundreds of times faster than our traditional data pipeline,” said Ali Hortacsu, Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago. “Quest has seamlessly integrated into our process, used our existing SQL, and sped our queries dramatically.”

Metanautix has more than half a dozen customers, including HP and Shutterfly, who employ Metanautix to create a more seamless data supply chain in a range of different data environments, alongside a wide variety of toolsets.

“The reality of modern data-driven enterprises is that there is no one model; heterogeneity is here to stay. Even organizations in the same industry can have radically different processes and tools for ETL, ad hoc analysis, discovery and business intelligence. With this in mind, we created Quest to be a flexible solution that runs in any environment,” said Theo Vassilakis, CEO of Metanautix. “The prevailing technical view is that the various stages of analysis need to be separate or stitched together from disparate solutions. Quest was designed from the ground up to be integrated.”

Along with the general availability of Metanautix Quest, Metanautix is also announcing a key partnership with Tableau to allow users to perform interactive analysis on any data. Metanautix Quest is integrated with Tableau through Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). The integration allows Tableau users to tap into the power of the Metanautix Quest compute engine and overcome limitations of format, size and location of data to perform interactive analysis for rapid business decisions.

“With the great variety of data sources and data types within organizations, the ability to perform analysis on any data using Quest is incredibly valuable to Tableau users,” said Andrew Beers, VP of Engineering at Tableau. “Metanautix Quest provides Tableau users with a quick and easy way to power their Tableau Dashboards with insights from all data.”