Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are:
- Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before
- Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology)
- Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months
Advantages: - Value Proposition: Simple, Powerful, Low Cost
- less hardware: fewer servers, much less storage (industry-leading data compression), significantly lower operational expenses, less power and cooling, runs on industry standard hardware
- less work to implement: “Load and go”: no new schemas, no partitioning, no data modeling, industry-leading data load speed
- less work to manage: No indices or partitions to create or maintain, works with standard ETL and BI tools
- scalable, high performance – up to 30TB using single server
- High load performance: up to 280GB/hr
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