Composite Software Releases Latest Data Virtualization Software Highlighted by "Big Data" Integration Support for Apache Hadoop, IBM Netezza and HP Vertica

Composite Software, the data virtualization performance leader, today introduced Composite 6, a new version of its flagship data virtualization software that enriches the enterprise with “big data” integration support for the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), IBM Netezza and HP Vertica data sources. Composite 6, the culmination of nearly 10 years of Composite Software engineering expertise, extends Composite Software's enterprise-scale data virtualization leadership position with unsurpassed performance optimizations, cache enhancements, new data governance capabilities and ease-of-use features. Composite 6 is completing beta test and will be commercially available in July.

Composite 6 provides a standardized SQL approach to augment specialized MapReduce coding of Hadoop queries. This simplifies integration of Hadoop data thereby extending an organization's enterprisewide information analysis and business insight capabilities to include this emerging “big data” source.

“The rapid proliferation of diverse data sources such as Hadoop has compelled companies to seek alternatives such as data virtualization for integrating these 'big data' sources for enterprisewide information analysis and resulting business insights,” said Shawn Rogers, Vice President Research, Business Intelligence at Enterprise Management Associates. “Composite 6 provides significant features that not only solidify Composite Software's position as the data virtualization performance leader, but also other enterprise-class data governance and usability features that make Composite Software's data virtualization platform the most advanced and enterprise ready today.”

"Adoption of Apache Hadoop-based solutions is accelerating as data driven organizations discover the power of this open source technology to extract value from large volumes of structured and unstructured data. This increases the need to integrate data in Hadoop with traditional enterprise data sources," said Ed Albanese, head of business development at Cloudera. "Composite Software's SQL-based integration with Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) enables customers to benefit from using the most comprehensive and widely adopted distribution of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise data virtualization platform."

High Performance Netezza, Sybase IQ and Vertica Access

Composite 6 further improves the data virtualization performance for IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances that Composite and Netezza initially delivered in 2010. The new software enables Netezza as a cache target, provides native support of all Netezza analytic functions during queries, and extends the unique “data ship join” optimization pioneered by Composite and Netezza to work heterogeneously with Oracle and Sybase IQ. The Composite Software Data Virtualization Platform is the only data virtualization product offering optimized for and resold by IBM Netezza.

Composite 6 now fully supports Sybase IQ and HP Vertica access and federated query optimization, simplifying and accelerating enterprisewide data virtualization of Sybase IQ and Vertica sources. The new functionality extends Composite's existing JDBC integration approach by adding intelligent use of source optimizers. Composite’s PerformancePlus Adapters™ represent the widest set of optimized source adapters in the data virtualization market.

“Since 2007, Nielsen has used Composite Software’s data virtualization offerings to improve the value Nielsen provides to our customers,” said John Boyer, Enablement Team Leader, Nielsen and co-author of Business Intelligence Strategy; A Practical Guide to BI Excellence. “Composite 6’s big data and query optimization advancements, especially with respect to Netezza, will enable even greater value delivery.”

Further Performance Acceleration and Governance Enhancements

Composite 6 adds incremental and synchronized edge caching to enable timely refreshing and wide-area distribution of persisted data. These caching options—unique in the data virtualization market—allow global organizations to achieve sub-second access to fast changing, large data sets such as trades and financial reference data, anywhere in the world around the clock. Additional performance acceleration features enable the Composite 6 query engine to natively perform over 30 analytic functions as well as dynamically rearrange joins when querying star-schemas.

Composite 6 also includes multiple new data governance capabilities including:

• More fine grain usage and lineage data for better auditing and control;
• Further automation of multi-source relationship discovery to accelerate data modeling;
• A complete data virtualization implementation methodology and supporting best practices to better govern data virtualization implementations.

“Data virtualization is emerging as an ideal solution for managing today's complex data integration challenges,” said Jim Green, CEO for Composite Software. “Composite 6 further extends our position as the leading provider of production-ready, enterprise-scale, high performance data virtualization solutions in use by more than 200 organizations worldwide.”

About Composite Software, Inc.

Composite Software, Inc. is the data virtualization performance leader. Backed by a decade of pioneering R&D, Composite Software is the data virtualization gold standard at 10 of the top 20 banks, six of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, four of the top five energy firms, major communications providers and the world’s largest IT organization, the US Army. These and hundreds of other global organizations rely on Composite Software to fulfill their ever-changing information requirements with greater agility and lower costs. Composite Software is privately held, with corporate headquarters in San Mateo, CA. To contact Composite Software, please call (650) 227-8200, visit us on the Web at http://www.compositesw.com, or follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/compositesw.

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