Attivio Casts Light on SQL Shadow
July 23, 2012
It is no longer structured versus unstructured data. It is now SQL versus NoSQL, and some are advising companies to stick with SQL. The good news is… you do not have to. There is a company that says we can do it all.
That company is Attivio, and they cover the basics in their article, “SQL versus NoSQL – Why Not Have the Best of Both Worlds?” Attivio can work with SQL, NoSQL, prototypes, and they have a patented JOIN operator. They can search and utilize relationships between records of any type, and can do so spontaneously.
The piece le resistance is their AIE. This is where Attivio says they really look good, and:
“Underneath Attivio’s support for SQL is an index structure that supports massive, linear scalability. We recently helped a customer index 300 million documents; its 1.7 TB of data, sharded across three servers. The entire set is replicated to three additional machines to provide fault tolerance and additional query capacity. Our support for non-collocated JOINs means that you can STILL query the entire data set. You don’t have to manage the content on each shard, either. AIE takes care of all of that for you.”
NoSQL users were lost in the shadows of multi-media doubt, but Attivio cast some light in their direction. There you go. Attivio offers a definitive solution.
Jennifer Shockley, July 23, 2012
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