This week in Big Data: New twists on databases and ETL
Traditional data management tools are being reinvented for the era of unstructured information in an effort by vendors to the apply lessons from yesteryear to solve the new set of challenges enterprise CIOs are struggling with today. Even Oracle is getting in on the action.
The company on Tuesday launched a centralized management tool for MySQL aimed at simplifying the administration of large-scale deployments and reaffirm its oft-challenged support for the popular open source platform, which it had obtained as part of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010. The new system, dubbed MySQL Fabric, features an automated shading capability that spreads instances across multiple servers for increased scalability and a failover function that kicks in immediately after the master server goes down, selecting one of the slave databases for promotion.
Like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard is also fighting to stay relevant in the wake of the startup-driven disruption changing the data management landscape. Shortly after the debut of MySQL Fabric, the hardware maker unveiled a new release of its Vertica analytic database that makes it possible to store and analyze historical data in Hadoop without the use of connectors and introduces a sentiment analysis engine for identifying behavior patterns across short snippets of freeform text like tweets. Output from the tool can be correlated with location and business data directly within the platform, functionality that HP says can be handy for marketing optimization and geo-fencing use cases.
It’s impossible to effectively glean insights from data without the right tool for the job, but there’s more to analytics than just technology. After all, software is only as useful as the user allows it to be. RedPoint Global, a Massachusetts-based developer of information quality and management solutions, has built its newly launched ETL tool for Hadoop 2.0 with that fact in mind. Geared towards marketers, the product provides a graphic interface that the company says allows users to manipulate their data and build models without having to do any coding.
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