Bloggers
i-lluminate shines on...
Boulder BI Brain Trust Blog, Richard Hackathorn
illuminate's focus is "ad hoc analysis," which chief architect Joe Foley defined as the discovery of information for a business requirement that is rapid, flexible, and effective. Joe pointed out that "ad hoc" really means "for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application"...read more
Vendor Snapshot: Illuminate Solutions Breaks Through Traditional BI Barriers
Database Security, Audit, Privacy and Support Blog, Bill Nagel
Illuminate Solutions is a young Spain-based analytic database vendor that offers a compelling new approach optimized for complex, dynamic, ad hoc queries. Illuminate's correlation database uses what it calls "value-based storage" to greatly reduce the size of the analytic database and the need for manual data modeling...read more
Data Warehousing and Ad Hoc Queries
Simba's CEO Corner, Amyn Rajan
It is interesting to see how various vendors believe that data warehouses and data warehouse appliances will help when it comes to ad hoc query performance. A lot of databases are tuned to perform well for certain types of queries. When the user of the database asks something unexpected, performance can grind to a halt...read more
illuminate Solutions structure son mode de distribution et nomme Karen Giles Kingsbury Directrice des Alliances au niveau mondial
Decidio, Philippe Nieuwbourg
illuminate Solutions, le pionnier du CDBMS (Correlation DataBase Management System), une technologie pour construire des data warehouses et des datamarts, met en place sa stratégie de distribution et annonce la nomination récente de Karen Giles Kingsbury au poste de Directrice des Alliances au niveau mondial...read more
Analytical Database Options
David Raab Article Archive, David Raab
It's long been clear that relational databases are ill-suited for analytical processing. The problem is fundamental: relational databases are designed to retrieve all elements from a few records, while analytical queries typically read all records but only a few elements. Until recently, database developers were able to overcome the data analytics problem with clever design and powerful hardware. Today...read more
illuminate Systems' iLuminate May Be the Most Flexible Analytical Database Ever
Customer Experience Matrix, David Raab
OK, I freely admit I'm fascinated by offbeat database engines. Maybe there is a support group for this. In any event, the highlight of my brief visit to the DAMA International Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference last month was a presentation by Joe Foley of illuminate Solutions, which marked the U.S. launch...read more
Databases ALIVE!
Competing on Decisions: Neil Raden
It wasn't so long ago that if you were considering a data warehouse, your choices for a relational database platform were limited to Oracle, IBM, Teradata or Microsoft. In fact, I often wondered where all the choices went. Fifteen years ago, that list would have included lots of other choices. There were standalone database vendors like...read more
A year in the data warehouse appliance space
Mark's Blog: Mark Thacker
What a year for the data warehouse appliance sector. New product offerings, bundles or initiatives from the big boys - HP, IBM and Oracle; new entrants in the space bringing different twists on appliance bundles and targeting specific segments or niche areas of the market in the form of Illuminate, Vertica...read more
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