In a few weeks’ time, Exasol will be live at the Tableau On Tour Conference in Berlin (8-10 June 2015) where we will be showing users how you can dramatically speed up data visualisations with a plug-and-play boost from Exasol. Indeed, we will be showcasing Tableau Turbo by Exasol, our solution that sits alongside an […]
Are you looking forward to the Webtrekk User Conference 2015 as much as we are? Marketing analytics expert Webtrekk returns to Berlin this year with the event that will see the launch of its latest product: Digital Data Warehouse (DWH). The Digital Data Warehouse (DWH) combines the excellent scalability and unprecedented performance of Exasol with […]
Exasol has captured the hearts of many businesses all over the world and together they have ridden waves of success. I have never seen anything more pure in my life. Standing 700 feet above sea level on top of the Cliffs of Moher, on top of nature’s wonder, I looked out over the turquoise Atlantic […]
It is just deemed too hard an exercise to even contemplate moving away from the database they have had for some time, even though it may not be giving them exactly what they need. What causes people to buy a new product or service, especially when they have already invested in a similar one? For […]
Exasol can work with more than just flat files – our latest video shows it happily working with XML files over a web service. So why is my latest instructional video all about how you connect the BBC News website to Exasol? I can’t think of a single reason anybody would actually want to do […]
Exasol has experienced extreme growth in 2014, and we are proud of it! Now and again, it’s always nice to stop what you are doing, review what has gone before and take stock. Indeed, I am reminded of a great poem by William Henry Davis called “Leisure” which summons us to do just that: What […]
In the world of fast databases and data analytics, businesses can get tangible value out of data that will help grow your business, be it through new revenue streams, increased customer satisfaction levels or distinct cost savings. Many of us will remember taking part in treasure hunts where we sought to crack a code or solve […]
A practical demonstration: ExaSolution versus Natural Language Processing I’d like to mark Thanksgiving by celebrating one of America’s greatest living poets, Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z. The thing I like most about Jay-Z’s poetry is that there is no way I could have written it. His upbringing, working and social lives are radically different from mine, […]
The name that came up top trumps for us was “The Datanator”. Our “Name the Beast” naming contest has a winner. We’re excited to announce that our call to you lovely people to help us name the “Beast” (aka the Dell PowerEdge R720xd hardware we smashed world TPC-H records on) resulted in a huge response […]
Exasol can cope with unstructured data using User Defined Functions “Structured data” is the kind of data that you could work with in a (sufficiently large) spreadsheet. There are fixed fields within a record and there’s a data model which defines what fields of data will be stored and how that data will be stored […]