March 17, 2009
Pervasive DataRush today
In my first post-fire briefing, I had a long-scheduled dinner with the Pervasive DataRush folks. Much of DataRush’s positioning, feature evolution, and so on remain To Be Determined. Most existing customers and applications remain To Be Disclosed. What’s more, DataRush is a technology to accelerate applications that
- Need to be parallelized
- Should run on SMP rather than shared-nothing hardware
and Pervasive hasn’t done a great job of explaining where #2 applies.
That said, there’s at least one use case for which DataRush should clearly be considered today. Suppose you have a messy ETL/data transformation task that requires custom code. Then I see three main choices:
- Write the code within the confines of an off-the-shelf ETL tool.
- Write the code to run on an analytic DBMS platform, ideally an MPP/shared-nothing one.
- Use something like DataRush (and I’m not familiar with any good alternatives to DataRush).
In some cases, DataRush may be best possibility.
Categories: Analytic technologies, Data integration and middleware, Data warehousing, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Parallelization, Pervasive Software
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