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Planned Greenplum appliance will bridge structured and unstructured data, and it's easy to see the industry's top vendors will follow with their own all-purpose analytic platforms.
By Doug Henschen InformationWeek, May 10, 2011
Stepping up its pursuit of big-data analysis, EMC announced that it will
release its own distributions of open-source Apache Hadoop
distributed processing software, along with a related appliance that will analyze both structured and unstructured data on a single platform.
In a similar announcement, startup company
DataStax
released
Brisk,
a product that combines Apache Cassandra open-source software for large-scale transaction processing with a Hadoop distribution. The product provides a single platform combining a low-latency database for super high-volume Web and real-time applications with tightly coupled Hadoop analytics.
Throw SAP's well-publicized in-memory ambitions in with these new products, and a vision of the future emerges, with lots of leading IT vendors addressing mixed data-analysis on unified platforms, but more on that later.
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