Aster data release.(IT News and Products)

Aster Data Systems have announced that any enterprise development team standardized on the Microsoft .NET development platform now, for the first time, has the opportunity to easily write "Big Data, Rich Computations" applications using MapReduce.

Aster nCluster and Aster nCluster Cloud Edition, the first database to tightly integrate SQL with MapReduce, now brings another first to the world of data analysis -the ability for .NET developers to write MapReduce functions in C# and have them execute in the database to empower data-driven applications and business analysis. This extends the Aster nCluster In-Database MapReduce framework support for Java, Python, Perl, C++, and more.

MapReduce is a programming model that was popularized by Google in 2004 to process large unstructured data sets distributed across thousands of nodes. In-Database MapReduce enables enterprises to harness the power of MapReduce while managing their data in Aster nCluster, a highly scalable relational database for data warehousing and analytics. Aster nCluster was the first database system to offer enterprise-class MapReduce capabilities such as integration with BI and ETL tools, SQL support, backup and recovery, transactional data consistency, support for interactive as well as batch analytics, etc. According to the Forrester Research report, The State of Enterprise Software: 2009, by R "Ray" Wang and Jean-Pierre Garbani, enterprises that custom-develop software applications are likely to deploy them internally, and 62% of enterprises develop on the Microsoft .NET platform. For custom-developed applications, 43% of enterprises use Microsoft C# for development or maintenance. This data was based on a survey of 445 North American and European enterprise software decision-makers responsible for software development.

www.asterdata.com/mapreduce.

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