diwo® is a new, AI-powered platform that promises to help business users answer real-life challenges, acting as its “cognitive decision-making superpower.” diwo – which stands for “data in, wisdom out” – uses MemSQL to power a significant part of its functionality. diwo was developed to reveal hidden business opportunities and empower users to act on them in a timely manner. The software can run in an AI-powered conversational mode, rather than through a programming or scripting language (though many layers of sophisticated coding underline the system). diwo’s conversational persona, ASK, is powered by a series of distributed microservices, and uses …

Time series data is as old as databases themselves – and also the hot new thing. Interest in the topic has more than doubled during this decade. In a previous blog post, we described how time series data is used and stored. In this blog post, we look at the desirable characteristics of a time series database and evaluate our own database, MemSQL, against those requirements. Time series data is more and more widely used. Part of the growth comes from the fact that time series data is at the core of the Internet of Things, with frequent sensor readings …

A Fortune 50 company tried traditional SQL databases, then Hadoop, to manage financial updates company-wide. They finally found a successful solution by augmenting Hadoop with MemSQL. Many companies today are straining to meet the needs for faster ad hoc analytics, dashboards, reporting, and support for modern applications that depend on fast access to the latest data – in particular, financial data. Facing competitive and customer pressures, IT organizations must respond to a rapid increase in the volume of incoming data and the needs of the business to use this data for rapid decision-making, improving operations, and providing better customer experiences. …