Tableau
Software has announced it has acquired HyPer, a high performance database
system initially developed as a research project at the Technical University of
Munich (TUM). As part of the technology acquisition, Tableau will add key
technical personnel and plans to establish a research and development center in
Munich and expand its research into high performance computing.
HyPer is a
fast main-memory database system designed for simultaneous OLTP and OLAP
processing without compromising performance. It also unifies transactions and
analysis in a single system, and when coupled with Tableau will help customers
take visual analytics closer to the transactional systems that underlie most
businesses.
HyPer grew
out of a research project started in 2010 by professors Dr. Thomas Neumann and
Dr. Alfons Kemper, chair of TUM’s database group. Four of the project’s Ph.D.
students, Tobias Muehlbauer, Wolf Roediger, Viktor Leis and Jan Finis, will
join Tableau, focused on integrating HyPer into Tableau products.
“HyPer was born
at TUM, similarly to how Tableau was founded out of Stanford,” said Muehlbauer.
“We have similar approaches to innovation and a shared vision to help the world
see and understand data. We’re thrilled that Tableau customers will benefit
from our research, and we now have the opportunity to make a big impact in the
data analytics space.”
The HyPer
team will be based in Munich. Tableau plans to invest additional resources in
Munich to leverage the talent from TUM for further innovation that will enhance
future Tableau products.
“This news
is in line with Tableau’s vision to help more people to see and understand
their data. Speed-to-insight is a key differentiator across all sectors in
India and we have already seen how customers like Eveready, Marico and others
experience exponential returns with what Tableau offers. We look forward to
exciting our customers even more, with faster data analytic capabilities and a
host of other enhanced features at the level of their databases. User
experience has always been at the forefront of Tableau’s efforts and with
HyPer’s technologies we intend to build upon that,” said Deepak Ghodke, Country
Manager India, Tableau.
HyPer will be
integrated into Tableau’s product lines and bring a host of new capabilities to
Tableau customers:
- Faster
analysis of data of all sizes
- Enhanced
data integration, data transformation and data blending
- Richer
analytics, such as k-means clustering and window functions
- Expanded
support for Big data efforts with semi-structure and unstructured data
- Unification of analysis and transactional systems
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