SAND: Analytic User Scale
Data warehousing applications require a database system capable of efficiently performing ad hoc queries on large amounts of data. Traditional systems designed for OLTP applications with conventional lock-based schedulers do not perform well in this environment. For a query that visits every row in a table, a lock-based scheduler must…
SAND listed on the Data Mining Group’s PMML product page
Just a quick note to let everyone know SAND is now listed on the Data Mining Group’s PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) product page. Our team worked very hard to deliver PMML functionality to SAND, which enables analytics on Extreme Data with even greater flexibility. Complex mathematical and statistical models,…
SAND Technology Makes Software 500 List
MONTREAL, Nov. 18, 2010 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), today announced SAND’s inclusion on *Software Magazine*’s 2010 Software 500 list. SAND markets and develops SAND CDBMS, the world’s most advanced column-oriented, bit vector database and the only database that supports the volume, variety, and velocity of Extreme Data. The…
SAND Technology Announces Support for PMML
MONTREAL—November 16, 2010— SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), today announced the introduction of support for the PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) standard for statistical and data mining models in its industry-leading SAND CDBMS column-oriented, tokenized, bit-vector database. This new feature extends the power of SAND CDBMS to handle Extreme Data…
Extreme Data
Last week I met with the team at Gartner and we discussed the concept of “Extreme Data”. Gartner states there are three dimensions to Extreme Data — volume, velocity, and variety, — and these dimensions are critical when it comes to winning the battle for control of enterprise data amid…
The secret data warehouse tax
There’s a dirty little secret in the traditional transactional data warehouse world: they know how to tax you as effectively as any profligate government. You invest in your data warehouse. You invest time. You invest money. You dedicate personnel and resources to your data warehouse. You pay the vendor to…
Bringing the Analytic Data Warehouse to the Cloud
Previously I wrote about Apple’s Steve Jobs and the importance of great software. Now it’s time for antithesis; Ray Ozzie, who recently announced he was leaving the position he inherited from Bill Gates, that of Microsoft’s chief software visionary. When Ozzie joined Microsoft he released a memo setting out a…
On openness, integration, and the importance of great software
The topic of platform openness vs. tight hardware integration, and the importance of great software is once again lighting up the blogsphere, thanks to comments made last week by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. The iPhone and iPad maker’s remarks, directed towards rival Research in Motion, were biting. He accused RIM…
How SAND powers Tesco Club Card and big data for dunnhumby
Paul Hunter, head of core delivery for dunnhumby talks about using SAND, the world’s most advanced column MPP database, to deal with big data — large concurrent user populations, and complex analytics for over 350 million retail analytics customers on behalf of clients such as Tesco, Kroger, and Home Depot….