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Note: Analytic database graduates from marts to enterprise data warehouse needs through massively parallel processing, distributed querying, and an API for unstructured data.
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Slideshow: 8 Big DataDeployments In DetailMore data, more data types, more queries, and more users. Sybase says it can handle it all with Sybase IQ 15.3, an upgraded analytic database released late last week.
An upgrade path is particularly important for IQ since the database has been around for more than a decade and is in use by more than 2,000 customers. Since data stores among these customers and potential new customers are now growing into the hundreds of terabytes, version 15.3 is aimed at improving scalability and performance with a PlexQ massively parallel processing (MPP) option. PlexQ supports a grid of CPU processing power--deployed on third-party, commodity hardware--that's said to deliver 12 times faster performance compared...