Aster Data Snagged by Teradata
March 13, 2011
The food chain is a metaphor that can be applied to the business world without much imagination. The Register’s story, “Teradata Snaps Up Aster Data for $263m” demonstrates how the larger predator eats the smaller. Teradata learned that it needed a company that would rein in its clustered parallel database. Aster Data Systems was sniffed out and after a swift, painless hunt involving $263 million, Teradata swallowed its prey.
Aster Data’s nCluster software is a hybrid row and column database that runs on parallel clusters. They also have a patent-pending SQL-MapReduce product that is a hybrid of normal data warehousing of structured data and organizer of unstructured data. (For some insight into Aster Data’s approach, you can read the September 22, 2010, interview with Quentin Gallivan in the ArnoldIT.com Search Wizards Speak subsite here.
The Register story stated:
“Aster Data has been peddling its big data analytics software on Dell’s cloudy PowerEdge-C boxes as an appliance. Teradata also uses Dell iron to build its flagship Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) clustered appliances, so Aster and Teradata already have that in common.”
The tie up should prove interesting for two reasons. First, Teradata has some traditional data management technology and methods. Aster Data is one of the new breed of data management companies. Second, large firms are slow to change so working out the social aspects may require some cycles as well. But the deal looks like a good one and is another indication that data management is a hot sector.
Whitney Grace, March 13, 2011
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