Tera-Tom here!  I am pleased to announce a strategic alliance with one of the most exciting computer companies in the modern era.  That company is Kognitio.  Their in-memory technology is shaking up the industry faster than lightning because their technology is all about queries being faster than lightning.  Kognitio is not here to replace your Teradata platform, but to co-exist and enhance your most important queries with a 10-100x performance gain.

The only real “Achilles Heel” of every Teradata system is that each query requires that one or more data blocks move from the AMP’s disk to memory.  This is by far the most taxing and time consuming piece of the query.  Kognitio ‘pins’ that data in RAM stores and then each query and analytic is instantaneous.

One of the best new features of Teradata is their new V14 Columnar table capabilities.  These are an attempt to move less blocks from disk to memory on queries that use only a few columns of a table.  However, nothing is faster than already having strategic tables or views in memory with Kognitio.

We have spent the last year working directly with Kognitio to make sure that the Nexus queries every aspect of Kognitio technology.  With Nexus and a few clicks of the mouse, any user can now convert their current table structures to Kognitio tables in seconds while also being able to access to and from Hadoop with the same speed and ease.

Imagine an environment where users utilize the Nexus Super Join builder to see all their tables and views and their relationships visually on Teradata, Kognitio or Hadoop and then point-and-click on their desired columns to have Nexus build and submit the SQL perfectly every time to any or all systems simultaneously.

Roger Gaskell, Kognitio CTO said recently “By integrating Hadoop and the EDW, it empowers an ‘information anywhere’ approach that delivers a logical data warehouse model, inter-operating with applications in standard SQL, MDX, ODATA or XML/A.  At the same time, MPP in-database code execution supports interactive analytics with standard programming languages (like R, Python, and Perl) to power data science requirements”.

Kognitio runs on industry-standard x86 Linux servers, as an appliance, or in the cloud.  This is an opportunity for you to check out Kognitio and see if they can enhance your enterprise environment.  Why not give them a test run?

If you’d like to learn more about the Nexus/Kognitio Teradata solution, join us for a web briefing on Thursday August 22 where we will give a short presentation and demonstration followed by a Q & A session.  You can sign-up for the presentation here:

http://marketing.kognitio.com/acton/form/5087/0015:d-0002/0/index.htm

I will be speaking in the presentation on the 22nd and I might even run a Kognitio query twice just to disprove the theory that lightning never strikes twice!  I look forward to hearing from you soon.

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