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Actian Vector in Hadoop Turbocharges Spark PerformanceActian, the hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, today announced support for Apache® Spark™ in the latest release of Actian Vector in Hadoop (VectorH), providing enterprises with access to an expansive range of data types and faster and richer analytic functionality than ever before. Actian's pioneering Vector technology exploits vectorized processing and multi-level, in-memory acceleration to deliver industry leading performance on Hadoop data stores. The Actian Vector family of analytic databases offers innovative, flexible, best-fit solutions for single server, clustered and hybrid transactional/analytic computing environments, spanning on-premise and cloud deployments. "Customers facing the challenges of today's dynamic, hybrid data environments are demanding faster, more nimble solutions to activate that data, to unlock the business value and insights, using the skills and tools they already know," said Rohit De Souza, CEO of Actian. "Actian now offers the power of VectorH through Spark to support a diverse range of file formats and workloads including machine learning, delivering performance and operational advantages over open source and proprietary alternatives. Imagine how much more productive your data scientists and business analysts can be with results in seconds, not hours." Actian VectorH opens up rich analytics functionalities for developers and data scientists seeking to harness the power of Apache® Spark™ capabilities including machine learning, streaming and predictive analytics, and creates a modern production platform that offers security, real-time data updates with zero performance penalty, resource management in the Hadoop cluster, query optimization and industry standard SQL support. Highlights of the Actian VectorH analytics database:
The new version of Actian VectorH will be released at the end of October. To learn more, visit here or stop by booth #350 at the Strata Data Conference taking place September 25-28 at Javits Center in New York, NY. You can also explore the single-server version of Actian Vector running on Linux, distributed free as a community edition, available for download here.
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