James Taylor First Look: Pervasive RushAnalyzer

Pervasive is best known for its data integration products but has recently been developing and releasing a series of products focused on analytics. RushAnalyzer is a combination of the KNIME data mining workbench (reviewed here) and Pervasive DataRush, a platform for parallelization and automatic scaling of data manipulation and analysis (reviewed here).

In the combined product, the base KNIME workbench has been extended for faster processing of larger data sets (big data) with a particular focus on use by analysts without any skills in parallelism or Hadoop programming. Pervasive has added parallelized KNIME nodes that include data access, data preparation and analytic modeling routines. KNIME's support for extension means that KNIME's interface is still what you use to define the modeling process but these processes can use the DataRush nodes to access and process larger volumes of data, read/write Hadoop-based data and automatically take full advantage of multi core, multi processor servers and clusters (including operations on Amazon's EMR).

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