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Vectorwise 3.0 - Fast Answers from Hadoop Whitepaper
Vectorwise is the record-breaking analytic database for performance and price/performance. Now with the Vectorwise Hadoop Connector, it is also possible to load data into Vectorwise from Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) at extremely fast speeds on affordable commodity hardware.
Vectorwise Workgroup Whitepaper
Actian Vectorwise Workgroup Edition is specifically packaged to address the growing technology needs of mid-market organizations as well as workgroups within larger organizations.
Actian Vectorwise Technical Whitepaper
Vectorwise introduces ground-breaking improvements in processing efficiency enabling superior performance at significantly lower cost.
Actian Vectorwise Business Whitepaper
Data is one of your most important assets. The ability to analyze your company, customers and marketplace can give you a competitive advantage by helping you make better decisions.
Actian Vectorwise Brochure
Vectorwise represents a step-change in database technology. By unlocking the capabilities of the modern chip, our customers and partners report 10X – 75X+ performance benefits for analytic workloads.
Developing Applications Using an Open Source Technology Stack
Versant: Creating High Performance Big Data Applications with the Java Persistence API
Data management has reached another inflection point. A new breed of applications is pushing traditional, mostly relational database management solutions (RDBMS) beyond their limits, driven by an ever-growing mountain of data, ubiquitous access to information, the consumerism of IT, cloud computing, mobile computing, and, last but not least, the hunger for smarter applications.
Versant: NoSQL - Beyond the Key-Value Store for the Enterprise
This whitepaper explores the core value delivered by early NoSQL technology, and discusses implementation issues within the context of soft-schema development. The core take away from the paper being that the ORM concepts learned over the last decade were not wasted engineering effort and apply equally well to the NoSQL era, illustrating that Standards based API’s with a NoSQL database and the (O) is enough, (CM/DM/RM) are not necessary.
Versant: Versant Object Database Paired with the Kove XPD2 Storage System
The Versant Object Database is well known for its outstanding performance, particularly for data ingestion of complex models including highly connected graph data. In this Versant white paper, we compare the performance of the Versant Object Database using a traditional RAID storage system versus VOD utilizing the Kove Data Storage system for creating trees of inter-connected objects.
Versant: VOD 8.0 and Solid State Device Performance Analysis
This white paper analyzes under which circumstances VOD can benefit from the high I/O performance of Solid State Devices. In this white paper we are especially interested in data that show which parts/files of a database - system volume, data volumes, logical log and/or physical log - should be stored on an SSD and which ones need not be in order to maximize performance gains.
No Business As Usual: The New Economics of IT
How Red Hat and Actian can help you reinvent your application strategy at a fraction of the cost of proprietary approaches.
High Volume Replication in Ingres
Robust, scalable replication is essential in environments where high availability is key.
The Ingres Database and Compliance
Ensuring your business' most valuable assets are secure.
Unlock Corporate Data, Reduce Costs and Increase Competitive Advantage
With Open Source ECM From Alfresco and Ingres
Alfresco on Ingres offers a content management solution that delivers complete enterprise-class capabilities (including performance, reliability, and security) as well as all the cost and flexibility benefits associated with open source technology. French Version
Actian Has The Leading Open Source Database Product Line
Actian continues to drive both technological and business innovation, providing the enterprise features you need with the open source model you want.
Dollars and Sense: Lower TCO and Increase ROI Using Ingres Database
Learn how companies are saving 20-55% over a three-year period by taking their databases open source. Find out why Forrester says "Every enterprise should now consider open source databases as part of its overall DBMS strategy." French Version
Upgrading from OpenROAD 4.1 to OpenROAD 2006
This document will guide you through the steps Actian Corporation recommends to upgrade an OpenROAD 4.1 development environment to OpenROAD 2006.
Upgrading from OpenROAD 3.5 to OpenROAD 2006
This document will guide you through the steps Actian Corporation recommends to upgrade an OpenROAD 3.5 development environment to OpenROAD 2006.
What is Enterprise Open Source?
There is a lot of discussion in the marketplace today around enterprise-capable solutions. But what does "enterprise" ready really mean? This white paper discusses the Top 5 requirements that enterprises demand in their database solution. French Version, Italian Version, Spanish Version
From PoC to Production
Whitepaper about why Actian should power your next application, by Christine Normile
Six Myths About Open Source
SVP Actian Engineering Emma McGrattan debunks the most common myths around the open source market.
Virtualization
Find out why this eco-friendly deployment model is on every CIO's radar.
Delivering Business Intelligence with Open Source Software
The high cost and complexity of the enabling business intelligence (BI) technical infrastructure has inhibited adoption for many companies, but the advent of fully functional, usable and industrial strength Open Source solutions has made BI much more accessible. French Version, Italian Version, Spanish Version
Finding and Fixing Long Running Queries
An explanation of how to read and interpret query execution plans, and a practical approach to improve query performance.
Understanding and Managing BTREE tables in Ingres
A white paper that delves into the internal workings of the Ingres BTREE data structure, providing an in-depth understanding of how it works.
Example of Reading and Interpreting a Query Execution Plan (QEP)
A brief case study that demonstrates analysis and interpretation of a QEP.
Disaster Recovery Planning for Ingres
A white paper that describes the process, end-to-end, for creating a Disaster Recovery Plan for an Ingres environment.
Disk Configuration Tips for High-Performance Installations
A white paper that discusses disk configuration related issues for those times when performance really matters.
Enabling Interoperability of Enterprise Data and Applications Using the Open Source Ingres Database
IDC has called open source "the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s."