Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, uses StreamBase, along with Hadoop, Netezza (the IBM-acquired data warehouse) and Microstrategies.

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PureData System for Analytics builds on the Netezza acquisition to deliver results in seconds or minutes rather than hours.

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Data needs to move in and out of analytics systems (like Netezza) fast.

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One key acquisition was the big data analytics company, Netezza.

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Phil Francisco, vice president of big data product management at IBM, said Werr had developed some interesting ways to load archival data into Netezza very quickly so NYSE can run surveillance analytics against records a few months back, or a few years back.

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