


Aerospike is the world’s fastest database powering a new class of real-time, context-driven applications. Developers use Aerospike, an open-source, flash-optimized, in-memory NoSQL key-value store for caching, as a context store, and to simplify scaling with smaller clusters benefitting from the price/performance of flash. Recognized by industry analysts as a visionary and leader, Aerospike powers 13 of the top 26 real-time bidding platforms including AppNexus and developers are rapidly taking advantage of the Startup Special to scale their business.
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions, including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 500 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision-making, and realize business outcomes with Alation, including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Autozone, Cisco, Draft Kings, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, NASDAQ, Parexel, Pfizer, Salesforce, Virgin Australia, and Vista.
Kognitio is a pioneer in the development of scale-out, in-memory software for big data analytics, providing an ultra-fast, high-concurrency SQL layer that allows modern BI and visualization tools to maintain performance, even when the data volume is large and the user count is high. Kognitio puts standard SQL in front of your Hadoop cluster or data warehouse. On Hadoop it is a standard YARN application, which easily integrates with your existing Hadoop workflows. It's also free to use on Hadoop: in production, in development, in testing, anywhere. For non-Hadoop data sources, can be installed on a standalone hardware infrastructure.











