Keeping it real
It's important to note that although index-based data warehouses have their part to play, so do those with a Massively Parallel Processing architecture. It's simply a question of what works best for the organization concerned and what the business wants to achieve. At no point can you generalize that one technology is inherently better than the other.
Kognitio WX2 is not exactly the solution that people familiar with Whitecross Systems will remember. That was a solution based on proprietary hardware, WX2 runs on commodity, x86 hardware and thus allows users to get a Data Warehouse appliance-type setup but at a fraction of the cost and effort associated with other solutions. All operations are parallelized and the solution can scale up to whatever size is necessary. The point is that, with massive incremental scalability, there are no limits with WX2. Indeed, one user in California is currently running WX2 on over 300 blade servers and this is growing.
The bottom line is that we believe we offer a viable alternative to other solutions, ensuring users, who are looking to gain high-speed data analysis from their data warehouse, can do so on a cost-effective based model. To prove this, we invite organizations to engage with us and allow us to build them a data warehouse for free. It may be that Kognitio WX2 is the solution you've been looking for.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
