Kognitio
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Founded in 1991, Kognitio is headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom and has offices in Chicago, Illinois. Kognitio develops WX2. Kognitio merged with Whitecross Systems in August 2005.[1]
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[edit] Program specifications
WX2 is a full ANSI-SQL standards based analytical RDBMS that serves as a 'virtual' data warehouse appliance for data analytics. No proprietary hardware is involved and the solution provides "comparable performance to the likes of Teradata and Netezza".[1]
[edit] Platforms
WX2 is supported on Linux. Kognitio has announced that WX2 will also be supported on Solaris.[2]
[edit] Distinguishing features
- WX2 is the RDBMS that runs on IBM blade server technology to create a virtual data warehouse appliance.[3]
- WX2 is the RDBMS that runs with HP's Flexible Computing Services to create a on-demand data analytics service.[4]
- WX2 is a database that employs Massive parallelism and a Shared nothing architecture[5]
- WX2 is listed by Gartner as a data warehouse database management system.[6] [7]
- WX2 is available through Data as a Service (DaaS), a utility analytics offering whereby users are charged for data analytics on a terabytes/time basis.[8]
[edit] External links
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b [1] Howard, P. August 23, 2005 IT Analysis.com
- ^ [2] B Eye Network March 31, 2008
- ^ [3] IBM Kognitio WX2 Virtual Data Warehouse Appliance
- ^ [4] Kognitio HP Flexible Computing Services
- ^ [5] Massively Parallel Processing architecture
- ^ [6] Gartner Magic Quadrant for DW RDBMS 2007
- ^ [7] Monash, C. DBMS2.com October 19, 2007
- ^ [8] B Eye Network November 27, 2007
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