Actian Blog
Eight Reasons Why Avalanche is 8X Faster Than Snowflake
This month, GigaOm published a comprehensive evaluation of leading cloud data warehouse services based on performance and cost. Offerings analyzed included Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery, and our...
Why The AA, a Leading UK Insurer, Selected Actian Avalanche for High-Performance Cloud Analytics
We are very excited to share the news that The Automobile Association (AA), the UK’s largest motoring organization, selected Actian Avalanche hybrid cloud warehouse for its insurance business to execute its cloud migration...
Speedier Interactions with Actian Zen from Node.js
Make faster calls using the high-speed Btrieve 2 API Developers building real-time, data-intensive Edge applications are increasingly turning to Node.js. It’s not in itself a programming language but an open-source, multi-platform,...
What is a modern data platform?
What is a modern data platform? When we ask this question, we get two different groups of answers. The first group is around the technology needed for data processing in today’s business environment. In this group, the answers...
A Two-Part Approach to Track & Trace in Urban and Suburban Settings
As businesses work to reopen and students return, in-person, to schools nationwide, track and trace is a critical component to mitigate potential resurgences in COVID-19 cases. The more densely populated a city, the harder track and...
The Six Steps Essential for Data Preparation and Analysis
Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying, “If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 6 sharpening my axe.” Spending 75% of the allotted time on preparation may seem like a lot, but in fact, most…...
Five Benefits of the Hybrid Cloud Approach
The ISO 17788 Cloud Computing Overview and Vocabulary standard defines a hybrid cloud as “a cloud deployment model using at least two different cloud deployment models.” When we talk about different deployment models, we are talking...
Actian Avalanche on Google Cloud: Engineered for the Data-Driven Enterprise
Today, Actian is excited to announce a partnership with Google Cloud that makes the Actian Avalanche real-time connected data platform available for preview on Google Cloud. Initially, the Avalanche preview will be available in the...
The Importance of Semi-Structured Data
Understanding data is an important part of running any business. Typically, analysis is performed on data that is stored in forms, spreadsheets, and relational databases. These are all related to what we know today as structured...
What to do when your Data Warehouse Chokes on Big Data
This may seem like an academic question, but it is increasingly becoming a reality for modern businesses. What do you do when you have millions of records with infinite width and depth, and your data warehouse chokes? Do you trim…...