Lets say I’ve been selling back-end database(analytics) stuff for the past 5 years and looking for a new company to work for… what’s new and exciting in this field?
Only little databases in PostgreSQL here.
wait, you’ve been selling a product for 5 years and you don’t know who your competition was?
what do you mean by “back end databases (analytics)”
I do and I’ve already applied at a few places… wanted to see if there were any start-ups or other suggestions people might have.
As far as “analytic back end database” - it’s just a database ment for being able to read the data very quickly… IE: Guess Jeans wants to know something about trending on 12TB of data… as opposed to Visa who has to run billions of transactions at a time(Reads vs Writes).
Is it like sas? That is probably the largest name business data analysis software around.
im an Essbase and Business Objects fan at work. SAS is too old school.
I heard Informix is that shit :lol:
Informix is ooold. Same with Postgres(and ingres). BO and SAS are both front end tools for the reporting itself. I was thinking more like how Oracle 11g is a back-end database. They came out with Exadata for mix workload stuff(OLTP and OLAP) but I really don’t want to work there and it isn’t all that exciting.
On a side note, SAS won the best company to work for 
Seems like Oracle and SQL pretty much run shit in that regard
Oracle is the best when it comes to Application Data
MySQL is the best when it comes to web programming and free-ness
MS SQL - eww
edit: Joe, SQL is a language not a database 
oracle is supposed to buy out sun
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/
which conflicts heavily with the fact that sun owns the mysql project
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.html
edit 2: I know someone that works over at sas and they love it. The facility there is incredible. They have a fucking 5 star hotel on the campus or something.
fggt 
You guys fail lol
No mention of hadoop, Netezza, Xtreme data(or any appliance with fpga’s), Teradata, Neoview…
I have never heard of ANY of those technologies
I can go over the use and ecosystem of analytic databases some day but its pretty boring.