With all the hype in the analytic database and database appliance market around “100x performance!” and “dramatic cost savings!”, we’ve stayed away from making bold, unsubstantiated claims of our own.  Instead, we’ve chosen to talk about the ability for companies to “do more” with their data through advanced analytics powered by Aster’s In-Database MapReduce, etc.

However, Aster does provide some unique cost and time advantages. We’ve produced a technical brief and webcast which outline the four main areas where Aster can help you lower your data warehousing costs:

[1] Hardware (Aster uses off-the-shelf commodity hardware – no proprietary appliances)

[2] Management (Aster makes it really simple to manage a large distributed database system)

[3] Scaling (you can scale incrementally and easily)

[4] Downtime (Aster doesn’t need any for administration and can recover on its own from any failures)

Check it out and let us know what you think.