Aster nCluster Applies Analytics to Terabytes of Data - Blizzard Sector

**NewsDude** · 05-20-2008, 10:10 PM

On Tuesday, Aster Data Systems announced a solution that aims to address the needs of fast-growing data environments with a new approach to analytics databases.
Dubbed Aster nCluster, the solution promises to transform off-the-shelf, commodity hardware into self-managing scalable analytic databases. The company announced MySpace as the marquee customer of what it calls "a revolutionary platform that drives deep insights from massive data to help organizations better understand customer behavior, monetize new opportunities, and control risk."
Aster may be on to something. Richard Winter, president of WinterCorp, an independent data-management-systems consulting firm, predicted the growth factors for data at between 10 and 100 times in the next five years. That, he said, calls for a fundamentally new approach to large-scale analytics.
"As systems scale, the network increasingly becomes the bottleneck. Aster has announced a product that aims to address this and provide the engine for a host of new analytical applications, requiring larger scale and higher complexity than we have seen in the past," Winter said. "Organizations would then be able to get insights into the behavior and preferences of users that are not possible with traditional approaches."
MySpace Test Drives the Tech
MySpace has deployed Aster nCluster with more than 100 nodes and the capability of loading millions of rows per second, according to Aster. The social-networking site's executives are reporting strong results.
"With Aster, MySpace has the analytic horsepower and necessary scalability to meet our needs," said Jim Benedetto, senior vice president of technology at MySpace. "The platform easily scales with our traffic growth and helps us better understand our users and improve their experience."
Aster's Secret Sauce
Aster said the key to its nCluster architecture is a series of patent-pending algorithms and processes that control the placement, partitioning, balancing, replication and querying across clusters of intelligent nodes.
Aster has combined three distinct disciplines -- database...

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NewsDude Status: *** Elder Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: News Office Posts: 1,884** Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Spent time on board: 0:05:24 Hours Rep Power: 4	On Tuesday, Aster Data Systems announced a solution that aims to address the needs of fast-growing data environments with a new approach to analytics databases. Dubbed Aster nCluster, the solution promises to transform off-the-shelf, commodity hardware into self-managing scalable analytic databases. The company announced MySpace as the marquee customer of what it calls "a revolutionary platform that drives deep insights from massive data to help organizations better understand customer behavior, monetize new opportunities, and control risk." Aster may be on to something. Richard Winter, president of WinterCorp, an independent data-management-systems consulting firm, predicted the growth factors for data at between 10 and 100 times in the next five years. That, he said, calls for a fundamentally new approach to large-scale analytics. "As systems scale, the network increasingly becomes the bottleneck. Aster has announced a product that aims to address this and provide the engine for a host of new analytical applications, requiring larger scale and higher complexity than we have seen in the past," Winter said. "Organizations would then be able to get insights into the behavior and preferences of users that are not possible with traditional approaches." MySpace Test Drives the Tech MySpace has deployed Aster nCluster with more than 100 nodes and the capability of loading millions of rows per second, according to Aster. The social-networking site's executives are reporting strong results. "With Aster, MySpace has the analytic horsepower and necessary scalability to meet our needs," said Jim Benedetto, senior vice president of technology at MySpace. "The platform easily scales with our traffic growth and helps us better understand our users and improve their experience." Aster's Secret Sauce Aster said the key to its nCluster architecture is a series of patent-pending algorithms and processes that control the placement, partitioning, balancing, replication and querying across clusters of intelligent nodes. Aster has combined three distinct disciplines -- database... More...