Other companies include BillFloat (online lending), Martini Media (online advertising), Personal Capital (online financial management) and Retail Solutions (data analysis for grocery retailers).

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GigaSpaces provides a commercial alternative that has also won fans among some Web, cloud computing and online gaming firms, as well as financial services and telecom players with very large data analysis problems.

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