A new product has appeared that promises:
The Cirro product suite provides a solution for accessing any data on any platform in any environment without having to be a developer or programmer. Cirro’s solution represents a new paradigm “to consistently ask questions and extract value from structured and unstructured data sources” using tools already available on user desktops. Designed to be used by non-technical analysts, Cirro’s products are cloud based and can run on public, virtual private and on-premise cloud environments. This solution seamlessly integrates with existing data warehouse and leverages existing in-house BI analytic investments and can also be used as a standalone departmental solution for data marts and mash up analytics. The result is unparalleled data accessibility, new insights to your business and more informed decisions – faster.
And when I looked for more detail I found:
The Cirro Data Hub offers a revolutionary method that simplifies total data access by federating queries across multiple sources of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. With Cirro single query joins can be done between data residing in HDFS and a RDBMS. In short, Cirro removes the complexity of accessing any data, at any time, on any platform. Cirro Data Hub is a fresh approach to the challenge of federated processing. Federation of query processing is about taking the processing to the data. When using Cirro Data Hub users do not need to concern themselves with the complexities of having to stage data, various operating systems and multiple query languages. Rather, users need only concern themselves with what data they want and what they want to do with it. Cirro Data Hub determines where the processing of a query occurs and issues appropriate data requests to all data sources involved. Supporting this new approach to the federation of query processing are a number of patent pending technologies such as a federated cost based optimizer, smart caching, dynamic query plan re-optimization, normalization of cost estimates and a metadata repository for unstructured data sources.
Total data processing, encompassing NO SQL, Hadoop, or large traditional RDBMS data, requires new approaches for the querying of massive volumes of a variety of data sources. Existing approaches of bringing all of the data to a single location for query processing are no longer practical. Cirro Data Hub is the industry leading solution for providing scalability of processing for the challenges of total data.
After reading this more than once, I have the distinct impression of the Dilbert management summary that reads: Good.
Optional reading exercise for my topic maps class? Or do graduate students have enough experience reading vacuous vendor prose (VVP)?
BTW, so your time spent reading this post wasn’t a complete waste: Dilbert.
I first saw this at KDNuggets.