How an Ancient Greek made the first Big Data decision and earned a fortune. Thales was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived around 600BC in Miletus which is in present day Turkey. He is enormously important in history because, before Thales, the only way to explain events was to tell stories about the Gods. Thunder? […]
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 […]
Slow databases are SO 1990s I recently heard a remarkable sentence from a friend of mine. He was trying to analyse some data for his company, using a big database with a short famous name. His queries were constantly hanging and I asked him what he was intended to do about that. “Tonight I’ll get […]
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 “360 degree customer view” is a well understood concept – so why are people now talking about a “720 degree customer view”? I have a problem. Some marketing jargon makes me literally Laugh Out Loud. All it takes is for some smooth consultant with good hair and an expensive suit to say “we can […]
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 is lead sponsor of the LOHAN space mission. Er, why exactly? It’s nice to work for a company that has a space programme! Exasol is lead sponsor of the LOHAN project, an audacious attempt to put a Playmobil astronaut into space from Virgin Galactic’s spaceport in New Mexico, USA. A British-Bavarian project As well, […]
EXASOL is lead sponsor of the LOHAN space mission. Er, why exactly? It’s nice to work for a company that has a space programme! EXASOL is lead sponsor of the LOHAN project, an audacious attempt to put a Playmobil astronaut into space from Virgin Galactic’s spaceport in New Mexico, USA. A British-Bavarian project As well, […]