- Kognitio
Founded in 1991, Kognitio is headquartered in
Bracknell , United Kingdom and has offices inChicago , Illinois. Kognitio develops WX2. Kognitio merged with Whitecross Systems in August 2005. [http://www.it-analysis.com/technology/data_mgmt/content.php?cid=8042] Howard, P. August 23, 2005 IT Analysis.com]Program specifications
WX2 is a full ANSI-SQL standards based analytical
RDBMS that serves as a 'virtual'data warehouse appliance for data analytics. No proprietary hardware is involved and the solution provides "comparable performance to the likes of Teradata and Netezza". [http://www.it-analysis.com/technology/data_mgmt/content.php?cid=8042] Howard, P. IT Analysis.com P. August 2005]Platforms
WX2 is supported on
Linux . Kognitio has announced that WX2 will also be supported on Solaris. [http://www.b-eye-network.co.uk/view-news/7202] B Eye Network March 31, 2008]Distinguishing features
# WX2 is the
RDBMS that runs on IBM blade server technology to create a virtual data warehouse appliance. [https://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/gsdod/solutiondetails.do?solutionId=30731&lc=en] IBM Kognitio WX2 Virtual Data Warehouse Appliance]
# WX2 is theRDBMS that runs withHP 's Flexible Computing Services to create a on-demand data analytics service. [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/library/GetPage.aspx?pageid=455925&audienceid=638&statusid=0&ccid=0&langid=121&pageTitle=Kognitio+-+HP+Flexible+Computing+Services] Kognitio HP Flexible Computing Services]
# WX2 is a database that employsMassive parallelism and aShared nothing architecture [http://www.kognitio.com/kognitio_library/whitepapers/WX2_parallel_processing.pdf] Massively Parallel Processing architecture]
# WX2 is listed byGartner as a data warehouse database management system. [http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/article19/article19.html] Gartner Magic Quadrant for DW RDBMS 2007] [http://www.dbms2.com/category/products-and-vendors/kognitio/] Monash, C. DBMS2.com October 19, 2007]
# WX2 is available through Data as a Service (DaaS), a utility analytics offering whereby users are charged for data analytics on a terabytes/time basis. [http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/6551] B Eye Network November 27, 2007]External links
* [http://www.kognitio.com/ Kognitio Home Page]
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