Database History In The Making:  Ingres Meets X100
  • December 19, 2017

Database History in the Making: Ingres Meets X100

Doug Inkster is an Actian Fellow with a long history in the database market, starting with IDMS in the 1970’s and moving to Ingres in the 1990’s.  We asked him to reminisce about the most exciting times in his long career.  Here are some of his thoughts: In my 40+ years of working with…

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Efficient ETL In An Analytical Database?
  • June 27, 2016

Efficient ETL in an Analytical Database?

Recently I worked on a POC that required some non-standard thinking. The challenge was that the customer's use case did not only need high performance SQL analytics but also a healthy amount of ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load). More specifically, the requirement was for ELT (or even ETLT if we want to absolutely precise).…

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Actian Vector Extends Dominance As Certifiably Fastest!
  • June 13, 2016

Actian Vector Extends Dominance as Certifiably Fastest!

Actian announced a new record TPC-H result with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel to demonstrate the big data analytics performance of the new Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v4.  With over 2.14M QphH and $0.38/QphH, Actian Vector sets new records for performance and price/performance on non-clustered systems for the 3000GB scale factor.  These numbers beat…

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