QlikTech Adapts In-Memory Analytics for External Big Data
October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie
QlikTech made its mark in the business intelligence field by simplifying the BI experience and delivering results quickly from an in-memory associative database. But with the advent of “big data,” the company’s total reliance on in-memory technology was challenged. Last week, the company unveiled a new Direct Discovery mode that allows customers to process large data sets stored externally on disk, while keeping the associative data model in tact. QlikTech has ridden the in-memory wave quite successfully over the last decade. While its big BI competitors like Oracle, SAP, and IBM have developed or acquired in-memory database technologies |