About

Our vision

We set out with a simple vision: that scale-out computing or Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) was the answer to the then emerging problem of how to analyze, in a timely manner, rapidly growing data sets. We realized early on, that massive parallelization required that the data be held in fast computer memory.

Historically, the high upfront cost of installing a dedicated hardware infrastructure meant that Kognitio remained a niche product for many years, however the emergence of Hadoop has provided us with a ready-made platform that can be shared with other data processing / analysis technologies.

For the past 25 years, Kognitio has been deployed on an infrastructure platform of clusters of industry standard servers – exactly like Hadoop’s. So we simply evolved the established Kognitio platform to work on Hadoop, and what’s more, using a mature SQL implementation means that it is more likely to have solved the complex issues around concurrent workloads.

Today our focus is to provide ultra-fast access to big data, especially for users using BI tools like Tableau or MicroStrategy, who need to make fast-paced decisions for their business. We enable these BI tools to maintain interactive performance, even when the data volume is large and the user count is high.