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Do in-memory databases offer anything new?

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: July 2009
Product Code: R464-1341
Description
In-memory databases are not new. However, the technology has received a lot of renewed attention recently from both the press and vendor community as they attempt to widen the technical appeal of in memory.
Table of Contents
Executive summary
In a nutshell
The Ovum view
The two perspectives of in-memory
Overview
High-speed information throughput
On-the-fly analysis and reporting
Why is in-memory so much faster?
A lower I/O burden
The difference between database caching and in-memory
On-disk databases are still here to stay
In-memory databases - what has changed?
A technology with a long pedigree
Hardware advances can make the difference
Cost, performance and functionality benefits will spur uptake
More scalable, low latency and cheaper
Improved price performance
64-bit computing and massive parallelism
Analysis at the ‘speed of thought’
A consolidating market landscape
No longer the preserve of a few small specialist vendors
QlikTech
SAP Business Explorer
IBM Cognos TM1
Microsoft Gemini
IBM SolidDB
Tibco Spotfire
Coral8 and Aleri
Oracle TimesTen
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