Category: Actian

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. We all hear about how forward-thinking companies, small and large, need to be more customer focused, even customer obsessed, to be successful in this hypercompetitive world. Data drives knowledge about your customers’ needs and behaviors, so you can actively tailor your messaging and offers to rise above the competition and win their business. This knowledge comes from an increasing variety of 24/7 sources, through digital systems and increasingly a sea of sensors, devices and mobile applications that track those activities. But the volume of data can be overwhelming, and the value of your data can ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Greg Coates. Greetings Actian DataConnect Community,It’s my pleasure to announce the availability of Actian DataConnect version 11.3 and I’d like to introduce you to some amazing new features! Orchestration Invoker The new Orchestration Invoker process design component provides you with the ability to create more reliable and efficient integration templates by invoking combinations of smaller, compartmentalized workflows that perform specific operations as part of a larger orchestrated workflow. The invoker runs each step as a separate job on Integration Manager simply by configuring the URL, username, and password. The invoker also has actions to get the job ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Nick Vancas. The usefulness of an analytic database is closely tied to its ability to ingest, store, and process vast quantities of data. Data is typically ingested from multiple sources such as operational databases, CSV files, and continuous data streams. In most cases, daily data loads are measured in tens or hundreds of millions of rows, so the traditional SQL INSERT mechanism is not well suited for these data volumes.In this blog post we’ll look at Actian Vector, our columnar database ideally suited for analytic applications, and evaluate a variety of CSV data ingestion options that operate ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Emma McGrattan. We are pleased to announce the availability of Actian Vector 5.1.  This release includes enhancements across the product, but the primary focus is with security, performance, and new customer enablement.This post provides an overview of some features added to this release. Security With the advent of GDPR we’ve seen heightened focus on security. Earlier Actian Vector releases included all the capabilities required to support a GDPR-compliant deployment, but we added features in Vector 5.1 to ease the administration and development of secure solutions. Data Masking Actian Vector 5.1 enables database administrators or security administrators to ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Alan Dunkin. The Internet of Things (IoT) World conference is the largest IoT event in the world, combining some 12,000 industry professionals and innovators with hundreds of workshops, breakout sessions, and a 100,000 square foot expo hall filled with more than 300 exhibitors and startups. The event takes place between Monday, May 14 and Thursday, May 17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.This will be the IoT event of the year and Actian, with its growing selection of embedded database systems for IoT like Actian Zen, will be there! Actian will be presenting ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. Last week we activated Actian Vector Enterprise Edition on the AWS Marketplace, so now it’s easier to tap into the fastest analytic engine in the cloud to extract insights from your big data. We can prove that claim based on independent benchmarks by MCG that you can view here comparing Vector performance to results from other databases on AWS. Try out Vector on your own data and share your results with us to be eligible for recognition and a giveaway. It takes only three simple steps: 1) choose your instance type, 2) select the right ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Cris Ianculovici. One of the main challenges for an application developer is the deployment of applications. There are many ways this is handled, from using traditional installers to web-based deployments. The initial web deployment option for OpenROAD, Actian’s rapid application development and flexible deployment solution, was the eClient where the application itself was hosted on a web server and by going to its web page the user was able to cache it locally.  The successor to eClient for application deployment in OpenROAD is called Loadnrun.Loadnrun is a simple solution for non-privileged users on Windows machines to deploy OpenROAD applications ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sandy Krishnamurthy. Why do organizations use OLAP Cubes?OLAP cubes are used extensively today, because it is impossible for many database platforms to analyze large volumes of data quickly. This is because most database software does not fully leverage compute and memory to deliver optimal performance. Some of the symptoms of this are: Large queries end up hogging server resources Response becomes slower as data size and the number of users increases Supporting concurrent queries becomes difficult or impossible Additional aggregated/materialized tables, indices and sometimes even individual Data Marts fail to deliver the required performance and concurrency. OLAP ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sandy Krishnamurthy. Why do organizations use OLAP Cubes?OLAP cubes are used extensively today, because it is impossible for many database platforms to analyze large volumes of data quickly. This is because most database software does not fully leverage compute and memory to deliver optimal performance. Some of the symptoms of this are: Large queries end up hogging server resources Response becomes slower as data size and the number of users increases Supporting concurrent queries becomes difficult or impossible Additional aggregated/materialized tables, indices and sometimes even individual Data Marts fail to deliver the required performance and concurrency. OLAP ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Rohit De Souza. We’re excited to announce that HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, and Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP), a technology-focused private equity firm, have signed a definitive agreement to assume 100 percent ownership of Actian Corporation. For Actian, it means the company will benefit from HCL’s expertise in delivering next generation solutions for the cloud, IoT, cybersecurity, and autonomics, as well as expand our global reach. SEP, with its growth-oriented technology investment portfolio and market understanding, will help Actian identify and develop essential strategic alliances. HCL will take an 80% controlling ownership and Sumeru ... Read More