illuminate Solutions a pioneer of the correlation database management system (CDBMS) technology for building data-driven data warehouses, data marts and analytics applications, recently announced that it will begin selling its database engine and tool suite in North America beginning on April 14, 2008. It also announced an initiative to build – at no cost to participants – a data warehouse for up to 10 Teradata, Netezza, NeoView or other large analytics customers, using all the same data sources that feed each one’s existing warehouse. 

illuminate appears on the Gartner BI Summit 2008 Hot List, which is the list of 10 companies Gartner encourages people to follow in the coming year. Highlighted at the Summit was the ability of the company’s CDBMS to create data-driven schemas on the fly, while loading raw source data. illuminate also shared information on its unique value-based storage (VBS) model. This model requires that data values be stored only once in a 100 percent indexed database, which is the basis for its exceptional performance, flexibility and compact size. 

“There’s so much hype out there that it’s impossible for people to figure out what’s real,” said Kirsten Chapman, Vice President of Global Marketing and Alliances. “Everybody’s trying to solve the speed/flexibility problem for users, but they’re all focused on better, faster, cheaper ways to do fast queries. Users want answers fast, not fast queries. And they don’t always know in advance what they want to know. Our technology eliminates the need to pre-design a warehouse or to reprogram and reload the data when someone wants something new. The only way to really prove that what we do isn’t magic is to prove it in a bold way.”

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