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Snowflake Rides Cloud Wave to Great Heights
Snowflake Computing started quietly enough back in 2012, at the height of Hadoop hype, when the idea of a relational analytics database running in the cloud was interesting, if not exactly groundbreaking. Fast forward se Read more…
Is GOLAP the Next Wave for Big Data Warehousing?
The 1990s and 2000s saw the rise of the relational databases for transaction processing (OLTP) as well as analytical processing (OLAP). As the volume and variety of data explodes in the 2010s, database experts are lookin Read more…
Actian Claims ‘Permanent Performance Advantage’ with SQL-on-Hadoop Tool
The SQL-on-Hadoop sweepstakes are by no means over. What's been dubbed the "gateway drug" for Hadoop is just starting to gain traction. But according to Actian, its SQL-on-Hadoop offering, dubbed Vortex, is out to an ear Read more…
Actian Acquires ParAccel
After broadening its offering last week with the acquisition of Pervasive Software for $161.9 million, data management company, Actian, has acquired high performance analytics company ParAccel. Read more…
ParAccel Lifts Hood on CARFAX Overhaul
In the wake of their competitors being gobbled up by giants and their announcement today of a new connector to Hadoop, we step back and look at how analytical platforms like ParAccel's are handling large amounts of complex data for companies like CARFAX, which recently put the company in the driver's seat following limitations from their legacy.... Read more…
Partnership Targets BI Scalability
This week analytics platform vendor, ParAccel and Birst, a provider of SaaS and on-premise business intelligence, formed an alliance. Birst will take advantage of the scalable database offerings of ParAccel, while on the flip side, ParAccel will use Birst's BI offering in house. Read more…