Aster Data Leads Next-Generation Analytic Platform Market

Aster Data Commands Technology Lead in Next-Generation Analytic Platform Market

New Report From The Information Difference Places Aster Data in the Lead Technology Spot Among New Generation of Analytic Platform Solutions

SAN CARLOS, CA--(Marketwire - January 11, 2011) - Aster Data, a market leader in big data management and advanced analytics, today announced a new data warehouse market study from The Information Difference research firm has placed Aster Data in the lead position of next-generation analytic platform vendors with regard to technology. The vendor ranking chart within the report places Aster Data ahead other new platform providers including Vertica, ParAccel, and Greenplum with regard to the technology assessment. The research report further validates Aster Data's technology leadership for advanced analytics on big, diverse data types and the rapid acceleration of the market for a broad Analytic Platform.

The report is a high level assessment of the main and most innovative vendors in the data warehousing and analytics market. Its ranking is based on a variety of criteria, including the vendor's customer base, customer satisfaction from surveyed customers, product innovation, and maturity of technology.

Aster Data is delivering dramatically faster insights to its customers by enabling up to 100x the query performance of traditional systems. Its flagship analytic platform, Aster Data nCluster™ -- the industry's first massively parallel processing (MPP) database with an integrated analytics engine -- enables rich, high-performance analytics on diverse data by providing the power of parallel processing via SQL-MapReduce™ analytics within a true hybrid row and column DBMS. Aster Data's in-database analytics engine, SQL-MapReduce analytic framework, and library of pre-built analytic modules provide an easy and powerful platform to process large volumes of diverse data in a fraction of the time of traditional solutions.

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