Sometimes Sybase IQ seems like the Rodney Dangerfield of analytic DBMSs (ADBMS) – no respect. The pioneering column-based DBMS first shipped in 1995, shipped release 15 at the end of Q1, and has 1650 customers. But all the noise seems to be about more recent entrants these days, and Sybase is stepping up to change that. TheContinue reading “Multi-Tenant DWs: Sybase IQ Defends its Analytic DBMS Turf”
Category Archives: Data Management
Vertica Gathers Momentum with New Release
Vertica, one of the fastest growing analytic database players, with nearly 100 installations in just two years, announced its new version 3.0 at TDWI this week. Dave Menninger, VP of Marketing, was kind enough to sit down with IT Market Strategy and offer a preview last week, since I could not attend the TDWI event. Dave joinedContinue reading “Vertica Gathers Momentum with New Release”
IBM Acquires Exeros – Information Agenda Gets A Boost
IBM has taken another key step in its Information Agenda strategy, improving customers’ ability to analyze, understand and remediate existing data by acquiring Exeros. There is a fundamental business problem that grows with data volume: an understanding gap. As new development, acquisition and integration of multiple systems takes place, meaning and process understanding are often obscured orContinue reading “IBM Acquires Exeros – Information Agenda Gets A Boost”
Ralph Kimball’s TDWI Crowd Shows DW & BI are Thriving
The economy may be challenging, but 100 attendees on a weekday afternoon in San Francisco proved that there is plenty of interest in data warehousing. The Silicon Valley Chapter of the Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) drew a sizable, energetic group to its quarterly meeting. No doubt the presence of Ralph Kimball, a seminal and influential thinker, had a lotContinue reading “Ralph Kimball’s TDWI Crowd Shows DW & BI are Thriving”
IBM InfoSphere Now Supports Informix and z
IBM’s InfoSphere Data Warehouse has been a steady growth asset. As IBM has created and acquired pieces of the infrastructure and progressively created a more complete, end-to-end offering, it has continued to add new customers to (and from) one of the largest installed bases in the world. In reviewing 2008, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge asserted compoundContinue reading “IBM InfoSphere Now Supports Informix and z”
Confio Tries to Apply BI to DB Performance – Needs Work
The Boulder BI Braintrust hosted Confio this week. Confio is fairly small (25 people focusing on product development sales and support, with most other infrastructure outsourced), and privately held with angel and operating revenue funding it. The value proposition of their product, Ignite Performance Intelligence, (I’ll call it IPI from here) is to deliver information about database performance usingContinue reading “Confio Tries to Apply BI to DB Performance – Needs Work”
DB2 9.7 Focuses on Costs, Simpler Management
IBM has announced, a bit earlier than originally planned, DB2 9.7 as well as InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 (we’ll cover the latter in another post). A steady 3rd place in the DBMS market behind Oracle and Microsoft, DB2 nonetheless continues to make gains. IBM claims that its non-mainframe (IBM calls it “distributed”) DB2 revenue grew at aContinue reading “DB2 9.7 Focuses on Costs, Simpler Management”
DB2 Runs PL/SQL. Say WHAT?
Today IBM announced new features, products, and solution packages in its DB2 9.7 (Cobra ) release. And a new version of InfoSphere, including Informix and z versions. I’ll post about those later, but here I’d like to just highlight a buried item that got little play: DB2 can now run PL/SQL. Natively. In the engine.
Expressor Software Hits the Complex Data Integration Market Running
In April, Expressor Software visited the Boulder BI Braintrust (BBBT) and spent a few hours taking us through their story. Positioning themselves as a provider of high performance semantic data integration software, Expressor shipped their first commercial release in May of 2008 and are targeting Global 2000 and government entities in the US and EMEA.Continue reading “Expressor Software Hits the Complex Data Integration Market Running”
Kognitio Targets US Market, Bags Award
Kognitio, a UK-based player, has set its sights (and funded some moves) on the US market with its WX2 data warehouse offerings and is beginning to gain some traction here. If you’ve been around a while, you may remember White Cross, an appliance vendor before they were called that – it’s not much of a stretchContinue reading “Kognitio Targets US Market, Bags Award”