Bloggers
Update - illuminate JT on EDM, James Taylor Since I last got updated on illuminate (see the first look on i-lluminate) they have been focusing on their business model. While illuminate is a general purpose database they have been focusing on data warehousing as an initial market– with business analytics applications to follow. In large Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) installs illuminate is not focused on rip and replace but on adding illuminate to improve support for ad-hoc queries. In smaller EDWs illuminate is trying to...read more
iLuminate Aims To Enable Exploratory Analytics Market Strategies for IT Suppliers, Merv Adrian iLuminate 4.0 has just been released, and its parent firm, Illuminate, is ramping a campaign to join the “new analytic DBMS” party. With a very different architecture based on storing and indexing values in an inverted-list like model, the “correlation database” or CDBMS has been winning some traction with a powerful value proposition: shorter “time to analytics” with minimal design time, lightning fast performance, and lower cost...read more
B-Eye Podcast on Train-of-Thought Analysis B-Eye Network, Shawn Rogers Joe Foley, CTO and Cofounder of illuminate, explains train-of-thought analysis and how illuminate's technology enables this type of analysis. He also comments on how illuminate provides such a low total cost of ownership for data warehouses...listen
iLuminate 4.0 passe la vitesse de la lumière et explose le stockage en colonne Le Grand BI Avec illuminate la version 4.0 de son moteur de corrélation, Illuminate annonce pulvériser les performances des autres modes de stockage. La technologie originale du barcelonais est annoncée 60 fois plus rapide que la base de donnée relationnelle traditionnelle...read more
Green Data Warehouse Top 10 360DegreeInsightBlog, Rick Abbott I just published the second in the series of “Green Data Warehouse” articles in BeyeNetwork. This article, Top 10 Things You Can Do to Improve Energy Efficiency, provides a pragmatic list of 10 things you can do immediately to reduce consumption at the system level. Joe Foley (CTO Illuminate) left a comment on the benefits...read more
illuminate 360DegreeInsightBlog, Rick Abbott I’m getting a lot of interest recently in the data warehouse appliance chart I’ve been maintaining. I just spoke with Joe Foley, CTO of illuminate and added them to the spreadsheet. Their flagship product, iLuminate, stores data in a “value based storage” methodology that is neither row nor column. Essentially each unique data element in the database is...read more
Relational, Vertical/Column & Correlation DMBSs Rendition X, Kevin McDonald Over the past few years there has been an increase in the number database options available to application developers. It was a bit surprising for me to see so many companies actually positioning themselves as alternatives to relational databases. Here is a solid comparison of the three approaches...read more
illuminate Solutions lance le programme d’alliance 1:1:1 en Amérique du Nord, en Europe et en Amérique latine Decidio, Philippe Nieuwbourg illuminate Solutions, le pionnier du Correlation Database Management System, une technologie permettant de concevoir et de construire automatiquement des data warehouses indépendants d’un modèle de données, annonce aujourd’hui son nouveau programme d’alliance 1:1:1 mondial...read more
i-lluminate shines on... Boulder BI Brain Trust Blog, Richard Hackathorn illuminate's focus is "ad hoc analysis," which chief architect Joe Foley defined as the discovery of information for a business requirement that is rapid, flexible, and effective. Joe pointed out that "ad hoc" really means "for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application"...read more
Vendor Snapshot: Illuminate Solutions Breaks Through Traditional BI Barriers Database Security, Audit, Privacy and Support Blog, Bill Nagel Illuminate Solutions is a young Spain-based analytic database vendor that offers a compelling new approach optimized for complex, dynamic, ad hoc queries. Illuminate's correlation database uses what it calls "value-based storage" to greatly reduce the size of the analytic database and the need for manual data modeling...read more
Data Warehousing and Ad Hoc Queries Simba's CEO Corner, Amyn Rajan It is interesting to see how various vendors believe that data warehouses and data warehouse appliances will help when it comes to ad hoc query performance. A lot of databases are tuned to perform well for certain types of queries. When the user of the database asks something unexpected, performance can grind to a halt...read more
illuminate Solutions structure son mode de distribution et nomme Karen Giles Kingsbury Directrice des Alliances au niveau mondial Decidio, Philippe Nieuwbourg illuminate Solutions, le pionnier du Correlation DataBase Management System, une technologie pour construire des data warehouses et des datamarts, met en place sa stratégie de distribution et annonce la nomination récente de Karen Giles Kingsbury au poste de Directrice des Alliances au niveau mondial...read more
Analytical Database Options David Raab Article Archive, David Raab It’s long been clear that relational databases are ill-suited for analytical processing. The problem is fundamental: relational databases are designed to retrieve all elements from a few records, while analytical queries typically read all records but only a few elements. Until recently, database developers were able to overcome the data analytics problem with clever design and powerful hardware. Today...read more
First Look—i-lluminate Smart (Enough) Systems, James Taylor illuminate is trying to tackle what it sees as the unsolved performance problem of ad-hoc analysis in companies who have made investments in data warehousing and business intelligence. Despite the dramatic price/performance improvements, the illuminate folks think that the limitations of SQL and fixed data structures can cause complex queries to become large IT projects or even complete nightmares...read more
illuminate Systems' iLuminate May Be the Most Flexible Analytical Database Ever Customer Experience Matrix, David Raab OK, I freely admit I’m fascinated by offbeat database engines. Maybe there is a support group for this. In any event, the highlight of my brief visit to the DAMA International Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference last month was a presentation by Joe Foley of illuminate Solutions, which marked the U.S. launch...read more
illuminate Strategie Decisions, Philippe Nieuwbourg illuminate Solutions is a global software company that develops and markets a new generation of fast and flexible data warehouse technology (database and tools). illuminate helps large and medium-sized organizations to get valuable business information out of large data volumes, quicker and easier than ever before...read more
Value-based Storage B-Eye Network Blog: Shawn Rogers One of the best parts about the Network's growing presence in Europe is I get to meet companies that are providing great value in regional markets that may not be on your radar. illuminate is a new type of data warehouse that provides greater data analytics flexibility than other solutions. The way illuminate organizes data allows it to provide the following to its clients...read more
Databases ALIVE! Competing on Decisions: Neil Raden It wasn't so long ago that if you were considering a data warehouse, your choices for a relational database platform were limited to Oracle, IBM, Teradata or Microsoft. In fact, I often wondered where all the choices went. Fifteen years ago, that list would have included lots of other choices. There were standalone database vendors like...read more
A year in the data warehouse appliance space Mark's Blog: Mark Thacker What a year for the data warehouse appliance sector. New product offerings, bundles or initiatives from the big boys - HP, IBM and Oracle; new entrants in the space bringing different twists on appliance bundles and targeting specific segments or niche areas of the market in the form of Illuminate, Vertica...read more | 
