# Nerds: Managing BIG data... what's new and exciting? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 3, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918 "2010-03-03T13:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/1 "2010-03-03T13:19:44Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/2 "2010-03-03T13:56:01Z")
Only little databases in PostgreSQL here. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/3 "2010-03-03T13:57:10Z")
wait, you’ve been selling a product for 5 years and you don’t know who your competition was? ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/4 "2010-03-03T14:00:53Z")
what do you mean by “back end databases (analytics)” ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/5 "2010-03-03T14:21:23Z")
> [@theblue](#): > > wait, you’ve been selling a product for 5 years and you don’t know who your competition was? 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). ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/6 "2010-03-03T14:58:56Z")
Is it like sas? That is probably the largest name business data analysis software around. > **[Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Management](https://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html)** > > SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, BI and data management software and services, SAS helps turn your data into better decisions. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/7 "2010-03-03T15:02:38Z")
im an Essbase and Business Objects fan at work. SAS is too old school. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/8 "2010-03-03T16:13:49Z")
I heard Informix is that shit :lol: ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/9 "2010-03-03T20:34:51Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/10 "2010-03-04T05:34:04Z")
Seems like Oracle and SQL pretty much run shit in that regard ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/11 "2010-03-04T06:05:00Z")
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/](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](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. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/12 "2010-03-04T06:10:46Z")
fggt 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/13 "2010-03-04T13:07:12Z")
You guys fail lol No mention of hadoop, Netezza, Xtreme data(or any appliance with fpga’s), Teradata, Neoview… ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/14 "2010-03-04T13:10:10Z")
I have never heard of ANY of those technologies ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerds-managing-big-data-whats-new-and-exciting/79918/15 "2010-03-04T13:14:28Z")
I can go over the use and ecosystem of analytic databases some day but its pretty boring.