Actian builds big data portfolio

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Actian builds big-data portfolio Analytical DBMS: Actian Matrix (formerly ParAccel), Actian Vector (formerly Vectorwise). In-memory DBMS: Actian Matrix In-Memory Option (data stored to both memory and disk). Hadoop distribution: None. Stream-processing technology: None. Hardware/software systems: None (software-only vendor). Ingres Corp. took the name Actian in 2011, and the company has been fleshing out a big-data portfolio ever since. Building on the 10,000+ customer base of Ingres, the open-source transactional database, the company expanded with Vectorwise, a fast analytical database management system (DBMS) now called Actian Vector. It also acquired Versant, the vendor behind the eponymous object database; and Pervasive, maker of DataRush analytics-on-Hadoop and data-integration software now called Actian DataFlow. The April 2013 acquisition of ParAccel marked an even bigger push into big-data analytics with a massively parallel processing DBMS now called Actian Matrix. The company is counting on the combination of fast, analytical DBMS options, cloud services, and data-integration and -analytics software geared to a world in which Hadoop is a prominent fixture of the data-management architecture. Actian DataFlow includes SQL-, ETL-, and data-cleansing-on Hadoop options that work with distributions from Apache, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and others. With $140 million in revenue and much more to its story than a DBMS, Actian is a bantam-weight player in the big-data market.

Actian builds big-data portfolio

Analytical DBMS: Actian Matrix (formerly ParAccel), Actian Vector (formerly Vectorwise).
In-memory DBMS: Actian Matrix In-Memory Option (data stored to both memory and disk).
Hadoop distribution: None.
Stream-processing technology: None.
Hardware/software systems: None (software-only vendor).

Ingres Corp. took the name Actian in 2011, and the company has been fleshing out a big-data portfolio ever since. Building on the 10,000+ customer base of Ingres, the open-source transactional database, the company expanded with Vectorwise, a fast analytical database management system (DBMS) now called Actian Vector. It also acquired Versant, the vendor behind the eponymous object database; and Pervasive, maker of DataRush analytics-on-Hadoop and data-integration software now called Actian DataFlow. The April 2013 acquisition of ParAccel marked an even bigger push into big-data analytics with a massively parallel processing DBMS now called Actian Matrix.
The company is counting on the combination of fast, analytical DBMS options, cloud services, and data-integration and -analytics software geared to a world in which Hadoop is a prominent fixture of the data-management architecture. Actian DataFlow includes SQL-, ETL-, and data-cleansing-on Hadoop options that work with distributions from Apache, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and others. With $140 million in revenue and much more to its story than a DBMS, Actian is a bantam-weight player in the big-data market.

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