Category: Datawarehousing

Feed: Actian. Author: Sean Hughes. Actian Hybrid Data Conference 2017You are cordially invited to Actian’s Hybrid Data Conference in central London, UK on November 9th, 2017. Unlike many tech conferences, this one is totally free, and is open to Actian Customers, Partners, and the broader Tech Community alike. Bring a friend, or bring a few friends, this is a great technology community networking event and you won’t want to miss out. The keynote speaker is Matt Aslett, from 451 Research. Matt will be discussing the Inevitability of Hybrid Data Management. “From cars to the cloud, the concept of hybrid is ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. There were so many good presentations at Microsoft Ignite, all of which can be viewed on-demand.  I wanted to list the big data related presentations that I found the most useful.  It’s a lot of stuff to watch and with our busy schedules can be quite challenging to view them all.  What I do is set aside 40 minutes every day to watch half a session (they are 75 minutes).  If may take a few weeks, but if you consistently watch you will be rewarded by a much better understanding of all the ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Mike Boyarski. As always-on devices and sensors proliferate, the data emitted from these devices provides meaningful insights to improve customer experiences, optimize costs, and identify new revenue opportunities. In a recent report, Taking the Pulse of Enterprise IoT from McKinsey & Company, 48 percent of respondents cited “managing data” as a critical capability gap related to their IoT initiatives.1 The data infrastructure behind IoT applications requires a high performing and easy-to-access platform to support immediate responses to changing conditions. At the center of an IoT data infrastructure platform there needs to be a database that supports ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Bing Tang. Even the most technically-minded companies need to think about design. Working on a database product at a startup is no different. But this comes with challenges, such as figuring out how to implement the human-centered design methodology at a technical company, but also contribute to building a design process that everyone agrees with across the organization. This blog will detail how product design is done at MemSQL as well as highlight how to design enterprise products at a startup.   How do we define Product Design? Product Design is the end-to-end process of gathering ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. Many product announcements were made this week at Microsoft Ignite, and I wanted to give a quick overview of all the data platform related announcements: SQL Server 2017 on Linux, Windows, and Docker, generally available on October 2nd.  SQL Server 2017 is being released simultaneously for Windows and various flavors of Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, Ubuntu and Docker. The official Docker image is based on Ubuntu 16.04.  The performance of SQL Server on Linux vs Windows is “basically the same”.  However, not everything has been ported. There ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Gary Orenstein. Today marks another milestone for MemSQL as we share the details of our latest release, MemSQL 6. This release encapsulates over one year of extensive development to continue making MemSQL the best database platform for real-time analytics with a focus on real-time data warehouse use cases. Additionally, MemSQL 6 brings a range of new machine learning capabilities to MemSQL, closing the gap between data science and operational applications. Product Pillars MemSQL 6 has three foundational pillars: Extensibility Query Performance Enhanced Online Operations Let’s explore each of these in detail. Extensibility Extensibility covers the world ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sean Paton. One of the main concerns of Ingres and Vector customers whose systems need to undergo a significant change, such as major version upgrades, OS migration, major software releases, increased volumes of usage, etc, is how to properly test the database under realistic conditions in a test environment.Some customers have heard of the Query, Recording and Playback (QRP) tool, developed by Actian Professional Services, at user meetings. The aim of the tool is to test the Ingres or Vector database in near-to production conditions by recording and then playing back a production workload in a test ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Nicole Nearhood. Strata Data Conference in New York brings together thousands of companies across the globe that build their businesses with data. The developers responsible for this revolution need a place to share their experiences on this journey. This year, Strata Data Conference will offer even more breakout sessions led by data engineers and scientists. This informative mixture of lectures, demonstrations, and guest speakers is geared towards keeping attendees informed on technical content, customer stories, and new launch announcements. MemSQL is exhibiting in the Sponsor Expo, so stop by our kiosk #2 to view a demo ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: David Iosson. When a major UK logistics company wanted to improve reporting for its large accounts, they turned to Actian to design, implement and support the underlying database system (“LARS”) using Ingres, HVR and Vector products for its architecture.The Brief The customer had around 100 Customer Accounts Representatives dedicated to large accounts, with each Rep manually producing their own set of spreadsheet-based daily, twice-daily and ad hoc Reports for emailing to their account contacts, based on a range of daily extracts from an Ingres operational-level database. The customer wanted to standardise the format of the reports and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. Join us at the Strata Data New York conference next week at Jacob K Javits Convention Center to learn how our data management and analytics products can help you manage and analyze hybrid data to better gain business insights.  This O’Reilly conference takes place September 25-28, with an opening reception from 5-6:30pm Tuesday in the Expo Hall.  Exhibits are open during the day Wednesday 10:30am-7:05pm and Thursday 10:30am-4:35pm.  There’s also a booth crawl Wednesday evening from 6:05-7:05pm, to relax with some refreshments after a long day of keynotes and speaking sessions.Actian will be in booth ... Read More