Customers leveraging Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph include: Automsoft International Limited, Bocad Software, Deloitte, FROX communication, USAF, Iridium Satellite LLC, L-3 ComCept, Inc., McKesson Technologies, Inc., Raytheon MOS, the US Department of Defense and the US Navy.  Objectivity also signed a partnership agreement with UK-based Business Intelligence Service Provider, IPL.

“Over the last quarter we have seen a significant uptake in interest from companies and organizations wanting to connect the dots between complex data points, in real-time, for anything from fraud detection, to cyber security, identifying new customers and developing new products and services,” said Rich Shelley, VP of Worldwide Operations. “Companies are beginning to understand that using the power and scalability of Objectivity’s database products within their stack enables their solutions a whole new level of analysis, opportunity and security. In addition our experience with deployment in environments which require 99.999% availability has allowed us to take an aggressive position in the market.”

Objectivity also announced the hiring of an interim GM of EMEA Matthew Wallis.  Wallis is the former SVP of EMEA Sales at Quark.  He joins Objectivity to spearhead activities across Europe with a particular emphasis in the UK, Germany and France.  Prior to Quark, he held positions at Blue Order, Artesia Technologies, Computer People, StorageTek, Motorola and HP.

In December, Objectivity increased the size of its Board of Advisors. New members include former LogLogic, President and CEO, Patricia Sueltz, Former IBM VP, Herb Hunt, founder and managing principal of Crimson Holdings, LLC, T. Richard Stroupe, Jr., and President & Chief Executive Officer of Buck Consulting Group, LLC, Nick Buck. These additions bring deep knowledge of consulting services, Big Data management, Big Data Analytics and disruptive, emerging technologies.

“We are extremely excited about our new customers, EMEA GM and board additions. We really see 2012 as the year of both the object and graph databases combined,” said Jay Jarell President and CEO of Objectivity.  ”The inevitable challenge and opportunity Big Data brings to both developers and IT, means that we all have to rethink the database and its ability to provide deep analysis in real-time allows for cost efficiencies of scale out in terms of size and complexities of scale.  At Objectivity we have foreseen the promise of ‘cloud-like’ architectures and its impact on the market and our recent momentum is proof of this new reality. And we expect to continue this growth.”

About Objectivity, Inc.

Since 1988 Objectivity has been the Enterprise NOSQL leader, helping customers harness the power of Big Data. With our products Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph, we help companies manage and discover the relationships between complex data in order to make better real-time decisions. Our customers include: AWD Financial, CUNA Mutual, Drager Medical, Ericcson,  LMS Medical, IPL, Siemens and the US Department of Defense.  For more information on how Objectivity can help you discover your data visit www.objectivity.com.

The 2011 Software 500 is an annual, revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services companies targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing. The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2010. This includes revenues from software licenses, maintenance and support, training and software-related services and consulting.  The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. as well as from public documents.

“2011 has been a significant year of growth and success for Objectivity, and being included in the Software 500 among the world’s top software and services companies is an honor,” said Jay Jarrell, president and CEO of Objectivity, Inc.  “We’ve seen tremendous traction with the adoption of  our recently launched graph database, InfiniteGraph, as well as continued customer momentum with our flagship product, ObjectivityDB.  We look forward to continued success in 2012 and beyond.”

About Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, and Softwaremag.com

Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, has been a brand name in the high-tech industry for 30 years. Softwaremag.com, its Web counterpart, is the online catalog to enterprise software and the home of the Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and services companies. Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com are owned and operated by King Content Co.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments.

InfiniteGraph is a unique distributed, massively scalable, graph database that facilitates large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements by connecting the dots on a global scale. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success. The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements. Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online at www.objectivity.com or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

Panelists included Francois Bertault, Chief Technology Officer, Tom Sawyer Software; Jerome Petazzoni, Software Engineer, dotCloud; and Darren Wood, Chief Architect, InfiniteGraph (Objectivity, Inc).

Special thanks to Tom Sawyer Software for sponsoring this event, and NoSQLCamp’s Dave Nielson who graciously provided us free run and full access to  The Silicon Valley CloudCenter!

“Because of InfiniteGraph, we are able to provide our customers with a deeper level of Business Intelligence by mapping the relationship between, people, locations, and big datasets in near real-time,” said David Shepherd, IPL Director of Aerospace and Defence. “At a macro-level this kind of global insight and intelligence is invaluable for companies that need to connect the dots immediately, anywhere in the world.  On a micro-level our collaboration brings clarity and flexibility to leveraging petabytes of data at the blink of an eye.”

For more than thirty years, IPL has been an IT Services market leader combining expert consulting and advanced engineering to the Aerospace & Defense, Banking & Finance, Civil Government and Telecom & Digital Media. Intelligently leveraging the power of the NoSQL movement, this alliance brings worldwide customers cutting edge solutions with a tested approach that tailors to the needs of each industry.

Now customers with the critical need to meet the growing demand for relational analytics will receive fully supported, commercial and highly reliable solutions that can withstand an ever growing volume of data, both in terms of size and complexity, and the challenge of how to extract more meaning from the data.

“Working with IPL makes a lot of sense for our joint customers,” says Gary Smith, Objectivity Director, Strategic Business – EMEA. “Their focus on many of our key market verticals insures a good understanding of the technologies and requirements for a successful project.”

About IPL

IPL – Information Processing Limited – is a software development and consultancy company, established in 1979, based in Bath and has 260 employees. IPL prides itself on its professional and reliable approach to software development, delivering ‘right first time’ solutions which significantly reduce Total Cost of Ownership. IPL’s quality, environmental and information security management systems are certificated to ISO 9001/TickIT, 14001 and 27001. IPL provides enterprise level solutions for major industry sectors including aerospace and defence, banking and finance, emergency services, government, telecoms and media.  IPL’s clients include Nationwide, BT, ITV, Thales and Sony.

About InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph, a product of Objectivity, is a unique distributed scalable, NOSQL graph database enabling large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements.  Organizations use InfiniteGraph to discover complex relationships in data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages, technical cost savings and achieve greater return on data related investments by connecting the dots on a global scale.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments. The company’s core data technology Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success.  The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements.  Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online at www.objectivity.com or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc.  All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 15, 2011 — Objectivity, Inc., the leader in distributed, scalable data management solutions, today announced that Government Security News (GSN) has named its flagship database, Objectivity/DB, as winner of its annual Homeland Security Awards program in the “Best Intelligence Data Fusion and Collaborative Analysis Solution” category.  The annual GSN Homeland Security Awards program celebrates the ongoing public-private partnership between all branches of Federal, state and local government in the United States and the private sector vendors of IT security, whose combined efforts successfully defend and protect the nation’s people, property and way of life.  Click here for a list of awards categories and finalists, as well as for more information on GSN’s Homeland Security Awards.

“GSN is an authoritative source of news and information on all aspects of homeland security, and we are honored to be recognized by their esteemed panel of judges,” said Jay Jarrell, president and CEO of Objectivity, Inc.  “This award is a testament to our leadership in the government sector, and underscores how agencies like the U.S. Air Force’s Network Centric Collaborative Targeting System (NCCT), Analyst Support Architecture (ASA) and the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program are leveraging Objectivity/DB to power distributed mission critical intelligence data fusion and collaborative analysis.”

Objectivity/DB Data Fusion Repository Platform

The international focus on crime and terrorism has placed unprecedented demands on government agencies that are tasked with developing or acquiring software applications that can review and manage massive amounts of intelligence data.  Objectivity’s flagship data fusion repository platform, Objectivity/DB, provides software innovators working on advanced Multi-INT software applications a way to manage highly dimensional and subtly related data—making it more accessible to the exploitation process.  Objectivity/DB enables applications to federate, fuse, correlate and analyze data from multiple sources originating from real-time feeds from legacy silos into one common view.  This unique ability enables analysts to search and discover patterns through large and subtle data sets— allowing them to construct and evaluate scenarios, and achieve more effective levels of actionable intelligence.

About Government Security News

Government Security News was founded in 2003 and is owned by World Business Media, LLC.  The monthly print edition of GSN: Government Security News serves a BPA-audited circulation of 45,000 qualified recipients in the fields of physical, IT and homeland security.  This audience includes federal, state and local officials, as well as integrators, contractors and suppliers who are similarly involved in homeland security.  The print and online editions of GSN are the standard of editorial quality in the homeland security field and a rich source of news, analysis, interviews, new products and technologies in all aspects of homeland security, from access control and airport security to biometrics, border protection, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, IT security, maritime and port security, rail security, security services, state and local governments and urban security.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments.

InfiniteGraph is a unique distributed, massively scalable, graph database that facilitates large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements by connecting the dots on a global scale. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success. The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements. Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

The contest challenged developers to create next-generation social and information network analysis applications—whether a better social network or a solution for more relevant advertising and location-based services—leveraging InfiniteGraph’s API.  Final submissions were due before Monday, October 17, 2011.  The first prize winner will be awarded $12,000 worth of Apple products, computer equipment and entertainment gear, with runners-up receiving $1,500 Apple Store gift cards.

Winners include:

(1.) FIRST PRIZE: “InfiniteCommits” was developed by William Cheung and allows users of GitHub to quickly obtain useful information that isn’t currently available through the GitHub web interface.  This application uses Play (a rapid Java and Scala web development framework) to generate a report of the most active files in a GitHub repository, while using InfiniteGraph’s Data Visualizer to see the latest changes and notes associated with each change.

GitHub is among the most popular services providing commercial organizations and open source developers with a secure, hosted, Git version control system.  Git was originally developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, and hosts numerous high profile projects including the Linux kernel, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Diaspora and thousands of other projects, including some originating from the development efforts of Amazon, Facebook and other notable companies.

William Cheung says, “As a busy developer, I often don’t have time to keep up with all the changes in my favorite GitHub projects.  Knowing which files have had the most commits in the last week helps me zero in on the pulse of the project.”

A public screencast tutorial for InfiniteCommits is available here:
http://screencast.com/t/GYI7dz9Jh9B

(2.) Second prize:  “Find a Safe Home to Live” by Mustafa Musa Ulker and Huseyin Mert.  Anyone looking to buy a new home may also be interested in this application, which allows users to search real estate listings and see a risk score associated with each property.  Using this system, prospective buyers could obtain a complete insight of a home, through the near real-time calculation of risk scores based on state law enforcement and criminal records, crime statistics, environmental data including earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disaster information, traffic and accident statistics, and virtually any other data available.

(3.) Third prize:  “Call Graph Analysis” by Vimal Kumar.  This application is another developer-focused tool that helps analyze “call graphs” extracted from large code-bases.  Call graphs are a basic program analysis result that can be used for human understanding of programs, or as a basis for further analyses, such as an analysis that tracks the flow of values between procedures.

Vimal’s application uses InfiniteGraph to explore millions or billions of lines of code, and then quickly find all the connections and relationships between countless functions contained within the code.  This gives developers the ability to quickly understand and visualize the most complex structures and interactions among different software modules, which is incredibly useful not only in their work, but for training new code contributors, or as a visual aid for debugging and testing purposes.

More details on this entry can be found here:
http://igsubmission.heroku.com/about.html

Congratulations!

“The winners of our Developer Challenge were able to build very interesting applications in a very short amount of time, which highlights the value of finding and leveraging complex relationships between virtually any type of object or thing,” said Jay Jarrell, president and CEO of Objectivity, Inc.  “With InfiniteGraph’s simple yet powerful API, organizations can more easily connect the dots hidden in virtually any type and amount of data, and obtain the deeper insights they need, in real-time.  Whether these connections are between people, topics of interest, etc., social graphs, network data, and large amounts of data are having a major impact on how our customers need to analyze information. That’s where we can help.”

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments.

InfiniteGraph is a unique distributed, massively scalable, graph database that facilitates large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements by connecting the dots on a global scale. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success. The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements. Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

Notable quotes: “In today’s mobile-driven climate, the importance of real-time analysis cannot be underestimated. … Traditional data analysis technologies were designed around central-server architectures (one big database machine) that were the once the norm… 30 years ago. InfiniteGraph takes all the heavy lifting for developing these sophisticated graphing (network and relationship analysis) models. It doesn’t matter if a customer has one terabyte of data split between two machines, or exabytes of data spread across thousands of machines, they notice a dramatic improvement in query performance. This sort of analysis can be done in a matter of seconds with InfiniteGraph when it would take hours at the very least using traditional databases and SQL queries.”

Source:
http://ow.ly/7bncn

InfiniteGraph allows applications to distribute both the ingest (data loading) and processing tasks across virtually any number of servers and processes, in a near linear and predictable ratio.

Loading (ingesting) 1,000,000,000 nodes and edges:

Time is money.

• InfiniteGraph’s distributed capabilities can achieve virtually any process requirement.
• InfiniteGraph’s distributed processing power works across virtually unlimited data sources.
• Performance results, scalability and hardware requirements are predictable.
• InfiniteGraph supports advanced enterprise, government, and web-scale requirements.
• InfiniteGraph works on virtualized cloud environments, commodity or specialized hardware.

InfiniteGraph’s predictable data loading (ingest) performance

Connecting the dots, in the real world.

The great thing about InfiniteGraph is that you don’t need to throw out or replace your existing databases. InfiniteGraph can act as the primary data store if needed, and was built on a virtually infinitely scalable data core – but we also “play nice” with the other technologies. Our customers use InfiniteGraph to leverage data they already have, and are collecting every day into existing systems. They use InfiniteGraph to extend their system capabilities to answer questions that support complex analysis, intelligence, real-time decision support, and big data analytics.

Value in relationships.

Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Twitter and others have proven that significant value exists in the deeper relationships between objects (people, things, activities, location, etc.). Data that contains objects and relationships is known as a “graph” or graph data, and organizations seeking to build real-time systems and decision-support services to exploit this valuable information are turning to InfiniteGraph for help.

InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph is a distributed graph database designed to help organizations get to the deeper meaning from all kinds of data, even if it’s unstructured, and even data from other databases.

Among graph database products we are unique in our massive scalability, distributed ingest and processing capabilities. The primary reason we have this capability is because of our extensive experience serving  customer and application requirements that most other companies could not even imagine.

Objectivity, Inc. (the company behind InfiniteGraph) builds data technologies that can perform and scale. This is part of our company’s DNA, and comes from many years and a proven history enabling leading  and mission-critical enterprise and government systems.

Most of our customers have use-case scenarios that involve lots of distributed data, and which require real-time and massively parallel processes that enable the system to give answers back to countless clients in real-time, seconds or minutes. Not hours.

InfiniteGraph use-cases include…

• Network management and telecommunications
• Next generation government and business intelligence
• Social CRM applications supporting enterprise sales and marketing
• Bioinformatics, genomics, scientific research
• Real time relationship analytics and social network analysis
• Real-time recommendation, advertising and location-aware services
• Cyber security, crime prevention, predictive analytics and fraud detection
• Logistics and operations

Contact us today!

We look forward to answering any question you may have.

InfiniteGraph (c/o Objectivity, Inc.)
640 West California Avenue, Suite 210
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-3624
US (+1) 408 992 7100
www.infinitegraph.com

Gossy Ukanwoke, a 23-year old Nigerian Internet entrepreneur, has embarked on creating a different type of social network. His tech startup, Students Circle, fuses a social feature with a rich database of over 10,000 academic resources- notes, essays, past assignments and tutorials. – Forbes (Sept 30, 2011)

Gossy Ukanwoke, CEO, Students Circle

“Students Circle Network – the academic social network — is uniquely bringing together the worlds of social connection, media and education to a single platform thereby allowing students, teachers and institutions connect without bounds. We are currently making over 10,000 resources available for free.” - Gossy Ukanwoke, CEO, Students Circle

Read the entire Forbes feature on Gossy Ukanwoke here.

For Immediate Release:

Sunnyvale, CA – September 27, 2011 – Objectivity, Inc., the company behind data management, object persistence and relationship analytics technologies enabling leading-edge government and enterprise systems, announced today its sponsorship of the 8th annual Network Centric Operations (NCO) Asia 2011 conference and exposition. The event, representing more than a dozen coalition nations, and focused on command and control (C2), intelligence analysis, reconnaissance, and battlefield systems interoperability, is hosted by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA), and will be held in Singapore on 5 & 6 October, 2011.

According to IDGA representatives, “The need for real time intelligence and communication has never been as important as the present. With the developments in information technology, the need for a ‘system of systems’ has come in the picture, not just for militaries but also from civil defence.”

Objectivity has established a reputation in the network centric operations community for its technologies, which enable government military and intelligence analysts and mission-critical applications to ingest and process large volumes of data with low latency in distributed environments. The company’s products, which include Objectivity/DB, a distributed and massively scalable data an object management system, and InfiniteGraph, the distributed graph database designed around complex network analysis, support some of the world’s most complex command and control, and intelligence analysis systems.

Leon Guzenda, Objectivity, Inc. company founder and leading expert in data management technologies, will be hosting a discussion titled “Processing Complex Relationships And Graph Data In Network Centric Operations And Warfare”, with an emphasis on the benefits of Objectivity’s InfiniteGraph product, on the first day of the NCO Asia 2011 conference.

Objectivity, Inc. will also be exhibiting at the conference. Attendees are encouraged to visit company representatives at their booth to learn more about Objectivity, Inc., their distributed graph and relationship analysis database, InfiniteGraph, and to view demonstrations of their technology.

About NCO Asia 2011

Network Centric Operations (NCO) Asia 2011, taking place October 5-6, 2011 at the Hotel Fort Canning in Singapore, is the among the most popular Asia-based events focused on network centric capabilities while also providing an expert forum for high level C4ISR leaders. For more information on the conference, visit http://www.ncoasia.com.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments.

InfiniteGraph is a unique distributed, massively scalable, graph database that facilitates large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements by connecting the dots on a global scale. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success. The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements. Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:

Press Contact: Objectivity Public Relations
Email: public-relations@objectivity.com

Due to popular demand, we are extending the submission deadline for the InfiniteGraph Developer Contest! We’re giving everyone a little more time to finish their work. Contest submissions are now due Monday, October 17 (about three weeks from today).

Check out some of the great ideas and proposals we’ve received so far — see the Comments under our contest announcement video on YouTube, here.

For all those who are getting ready to write their contest entry code, here are some important links and notes to help you get all the information and answers you need about InfiniteGraph:

• Developer Wiki. Getting started, installation and code examples are all available here.
  http://wiki.infinitegraph.com

• Developer Forum: Get answers from our technical team and other users.
  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/infinitegraph

• Submitting your contest entries: 
  http://www.infinitegraph.com/contest/submit

IMPORTANT NOTE: We’ve asked everyone to provide us with code and instructions so we can run the applications/demonstrations ourselves — but contact us if you need to make other special arrangements regarding the demonstration of your entry. Please let me know if you need any other assistance. We look forward to receiving your contest submissions!

Best regards,
Thomas

Follow us on Twitter @infinitegraph, and download InfiniteGraph’s free community version to kick-start your next project. And maybe you can build something that helps others find “The One.”

A reminder to our visitors: The InfiniteGraph Developer Contest is still underway. Download the full version of InfiniteGraph after registering. Build something awesome. You could win up to $12,000 in Apple computer products, gear and tech!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-hamby/relational-databases_b_960235.html

Source: http://vsr.edgl.com/reseller-products/InfiniteGraph-Released-for-Development-of-Next-Gen-Applications–75319

First, to see if IPv6 is enabled run:

cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6

#disable ipv6
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

“…(The) U.S. Government has come to recognize Objectivity’s contribution to the vital task of connecting the dots. For years, Objectivity’s enabling technologies have been used by the CIA and other intelligence agencies to boost the capability of their analysts. While (Objectivity, Inc. CEO and president, Jay Jarrell) would neither confirm nor deny that the company’s products have been used directly in the crunching of the new data derived from the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Jarrell was proud to describe the role that InfiniteGraph will play more generally in a newly-established intelligence center located in northern Virginia…”

“…(The National Media Exploitation Center, or ‘NMEC’), which has received very little publicity to date, is intended to serve as a central data analysis center for all of the intelligence agencies that are overseen by the Director of National Intelligence, as well as the FBI and other information-gathering government organizations…”

Click here to read the complete article.

Other articles written about Objectivity, Inc. by GSN:

• Supporting the requirements of today’s data fusion and analysis systems with alternative data technology
  3/2/2011

• Northrop Grumman ASA software and data fusion application, built on Objectivity database, wins trophy for ‘Best Intelligence Data Fusion and Collaborative Analysis System’
  11/5/2010

• Objectivity ‘clouds’ counter-terrorism
  5/5/2010

Source:
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/3009-contest-marks-new-release-of-infinite-graph.html

RDF triples are a data format or data structure that can be used to represent entities and relationships, and are generally expressed using a subject, predicate and object (“Todd calls Jay”). A collection of triples is a labeled, directed multigraph. For us, all of the people Todd calls would basically be a subgraph of our “Link Hunter” example, which you can download here).

Triple stores are good at allowing you to query a subgraph worth of data with some SQL like qualifiers (all the people Todd called from Cincinnati on Tuesday). Triple stores are good at isolating a subgraph worth of data based on arbitrary, ad-hoc criteria. Triple stores work like how you use a search engine: Give it some search terms, and you get back a set of results.

This is an RDF tuple, and a graph. You don’t necessarily need a graph database to find this connection. On the other hand, most connections in most data aren’t this simple.

Given this overlap of related functionality, one of the most common questions we hear is whether InfiniteGraph supports RDF (Resource Descriptive Framework) tuples (triples), whether it works like a triplestore, and/or if we can easily work alongside a triple store.

The short answer to all these questions is: Yes.

One of our latest large customers in the government space is using RDF as the means of integration, just the same way someone would use XML or CSV. They have a bunch of underlying medical records datastores that they extract to RDF, build a graph, and then perform queries against it. These queries are navigational across symptom paths and are used to predict disease, suggest future treatment, or determine the level of benefits for disability. Tthe level of disability is found by traversing all disease edges and adding the weights. Some diseases make you more disabled then others. It’s very quantitative. This project involves a lot of data, is mission-critical, and serves the U.S. government.

InfiniteGraph can import RDF as easily as a triple store. You simply write parsing code that is basically a loop that reads RDF and creates a graph. What InfiniteGraph is best at though is navigational, multi-hop, multi-path analysis (also using arbitrary criteria on the vertex edge properties as well as filtering by type, degree of separation, etc). For example, “Show me all of the people Todd called, AND all of the people that they called,” or “Show me all of the ways that Todd might have sent money to Jay.”

Yes, InfiniteGraph can be used to analyze triples and RDF. But if that’s all you want to do, then you really should just use a triple store.

Our graph database trades some of the runtime flexibility (but not a lot) for well defined types and performance. RDF is fine for all the examples that have been circulated, if I just want to list all my friends or all the people I know who are married, its no big deal because the fanout of a single degree is extremely small. In fact, you can probably even just do it in mySQL for that matter. When we talk about scalability however, it’s not really about how much data we can store, but how quickly we can run across it. Storing RDF makes this effort slower. Its hard to make RDF perform, because the whole graph is self describing and therefore is computationally expensive to parse… Think of it like representing data in XML versus a defined binary format. XML is lovely to work with, basically human readable, but it is very verbose and inefficient.

So, InfiniteGraph supports and reads RDF tuples, and also can work alongside your dedicated triple store. In many cases however, your requirements might be such that you actually don’t need an RDF triple store, and could use the graph database directly. Alternately, you might also find you can use one of the RDF products out there that includes some simple graph methods, and you won’t even need InfiniteGraph. The key is whether you need to analyze triples more or less than you need some deeper graph analytics.

Our company has a long history in helping customers determine the most optimal architecture and designs for their systems (and we don’t try selling things people don’t need).

So, take a look at InfiniteGraph, our documentation and developer Wiki, and let us know if you have any questions. We’d love to find out more about your project! You can also contact me @toddstavish.

Todd Stavish is a Senior Systems Engineer for Objectivity, Inc. (the company behind InfiniteGraph), and is focused on our federal and government business. Todd Stavish has expertise in a range of distributed computing applications. He has worked in telecommunications, process control, auitomation and scientific computing. Todd specializes in advising customers about complex modeling, performance optimization and building fault tolerance applications.

I have devised a graph application layer to extract and process social network analysis data from Cassandra, using InfiniteGraph (which you can download and use for free). I have written more about the technical benefits of the social-graph-extract application layer and its use of graph-oriented processing on blog.stavi.sh.

Social network analysis is one application of a more general category, relationship analytics, as defined by Curt Monash. The relationship analytics problem domain maps well to the unique features of the Cassandra-InfiniteGraph hybrid system:

• dedicated vertex/edge API
• data can be clustered according to vertex/edge proximity
• disk-based/memory-centric access
• peer-to-peer communication from InfiniteGraph node to Cassandra node
• bidirectional updates between raw Cassandra data and Infinitegraph analytics
• parallel streaming and caching from InfintiteGraph
• modeling flexibility to support a variety of sources
• redundancy and high-availability
• precision and speed for graph analytics
• finding extremely long paths, all paths, unknown paths, or paths of nontrivial or indeterminate length

Current business problems that can utilize these features:

• analyzing high-frequency trading
• discovering high degrees of mutual interconnection in social networks
• data mining subtle retail correlations
• product recommendation engines
• determining terrorist or criminal behavior inferred from known relationships
• finding a pattern of relationships for fraud detection
• investigating the directed relationships between proteins and genes
• checking which entity has the shortest average connection to a group of others for cyber security (botnet controller)

The working codebase for this Cassandra / InfiniteGraph integration can be retrieved from GitHub. This project was originally coded using an early beta of InfiniteGraph, but I haven’t seen any issues with the latest version of InfiniteGraph. Forking of the main project is welcome (including downstream updates). If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact @toddstavish.

Todd Stavish is a Senior Systems Engineer for Objectivity, Inc. (the company behind InfiniteGraph), and is focused on our federal and government business. Todd Stavish has expertise in a range of distributed computing applications. He has worked in telecommunications, process control, auitomation and scientific computing. Todd specializes in advising customers about complex modeling, performance optimization and building fault tolerance applications.

Schema-less gives greater flexibility, but at a cost.

Your first temptation might be to use a schema-less graph database; one that allows vertices and edges to be created as objects whose attributes are represented as simple property maps or buckets. (See Figure 1 below)

This seems like the perfect solution. Using this structure, virtually any entity can be modeled in the graph and it works equally well for both your known entities and your user’s entities. You quickly code up a prototype, load some data, and run some queries. But something isn’t quite right.  The performance seems rather slow, especially considering the size of the data set you’re using. Alas you’ve discovered that, akin to life, nothing is truly free and what you get with flexibility in schema is lost through performance in the accessing the data. This model translates into sub-optimal query processing because the code that needs to make a decision on which paths to explore in the graph has to first ask each object it encounters what type it is; an expensive operation considering it has to potentially look at millions if not billions of elements. In aggregate, this becomes a DB bottleneck and ultimately effects overall product performance.

Full schema models yield greater performance, but aren’t as flexible.

Switching to a full schema model, like the one currently used in InfiniteGraph, you easily gain back that lost performance. The navigation engine in InfiniteGraph allows coders to take advantage of the strong type information on graph elements to efficiently traverse the graph, qualifying paths without examining (opening) the objects themselves.

But again, what you make up for in performance, you end up losing in flexibility; and in this case, at the expense of providing dynamic schema capabilities. InfiniteGraph’s strength in performance relies on having a pre-defined set of class definitions representing the graph elements. While this works great for environments where this information is known prior to product deployment, there are challenges for any application where schema and data models may need to evolve more often over time.

So what’s the answer then? Do we have to live with these tradeoffs or can something be done to bridge this feature gap?

The best answer might involve both schema and schema-less support.

The answer we believe is to provide users with a schema-hybrid model involving strongly-typed objects for performance alongside loosely-typed objects for flexibility; the latter implemented using Document object model representations such as JSON strings. The figures below illustrate both model representations in InfiniteGraph. Figure 2 below shows how user graph elements are modeled using strongly typed objects inheriting structure and behavior from a set of base classes.

Figure 3 below shows how schema-less capabilities can be implemented using Document-type graph elements. Together these provide a good solution for those looking for performance AND schema model flexibility.

String-based document storage and access can be done today with a rather trivial amount of code. We provide this internal code to our customers who need this functionality now. The next release of InfiniteGraph will include integration with the indexing and Visualizer components.

In summary, using a hybrid schema model with InfiniteGraph can provide the following:

• A mixed-model data persistence strategy
  • Fixed fields for data constraints and fast query
  • Dynamic or document-wrapped fields for flexibility
• The ability to store non-scalar/primitive data types such as maps and arrays on IG elements
• Better data exchange with polyglot environments (e.g. document databases, key/value stores)

If you are working on a project that requires these capabilities right now, please contact us. We can provide you internal field-engineering code compatible with the latest public version of InfiniteGraph (v.2.0). This same code will be packaged in our next release as well.

Mark Maagdenberg is a Senior Field Engineer for Objectivity, Inc. (the company behind InfiniteGraph). Mark has over 20 years experience as a software professional working at several prominent software companies in Silicon Valley including Ashton Tate, Intuit, Vantive, as well as several successful start-ups. His career includes positions as a User Interface Architect, Solutions Consultant and Sales Engineer and has worked on a variety of successful B2C and Enterprise software projects. Currently a member of the Sales Engineering team at InfiniteGraph and Objectivity, he provides product solutions for customers in both traditional on-premise and cloud environments. Mark holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Goetz believes that “with no disks and thus no seek delays, assembly of complex objects will have different performance tradeoffs”. He thinks “a lot of options in physical database design will change, from indexing to compression and clustering and replication.”

It’s a valid assessment, but one which begs a larger discussion.

Turns out, this discussion has been going on for 20 years, starting with Times Ten. Perst and ExtremeDB use RAM to speed things up as well. We’ve shown that running with SSDs can give up to 80x speed increase on reads and 4x on writes. Developers can also configure Objectivity/DB, our flagship data management product, for purely cached applications, e.g. in the telecom and process control worlds, where there’s a lot of lookup data. You’ll find much of this covered in one of our older white papers titled “Flexible Deployment” available in both web/HTML and PDF formats on our site.

In today’s world of big data, it’s easy to build something that becomes I/O bound – or hitting the speed limit that any disk has in reading and writing information. Goetz is one of the most brilliant data management experts on the planet, but I think this interview neglects the business-end of the equation (memory is expensive). It would be better to make clear, if you’re worried about becoming I/O bound as your system grows, you actually have *two* choices:

(1.) You can move part or all of your application data into memory via memcache or ramdisk components, or buy a super beefy machine with terabytes of memory.

This could improve your application performance from some percentage, up to several multiples. This will, however, add complexity to your application, require management of potential numerous new component layers, and force you to make decisions between hot, warm and cold data (because most companies can only afford to move hot data into RAM while leaving everything else on cheaper disks). And, complexity adds cost. $500K or more for each super beefy multi-terabyte RAM machine, plus the added cost of engineering, maintenance and IT management, can all add up pretty quickly. You might get your web-facing system to run %30 faster. Is it worth the price you paid? Did you get a return on that investment?

But there is another option…

(2.) Distribute your data and processing.

Depending on the data store you use, each machine in your cluster (including significantly cheaper, commodity hardware) could be used to reduce the problem into little pieces that are much more quickly processed, or in some cases, the database can leverage the processing power of each machine to actually give you a near linear performance increase as machines are added. I know… many of you who are dealing with sharded databases are seeing significantly reduced performance as your joins increase. But what if (and this is kind of the whole point of “Not Only SQL” or “No SQL” data technologies) you could eliminate joins? What if, by just switching your data model and programming paradigms a bit, you could access your data anywhere it lived, in milliseconds or less?

You already most likely use an object oriented programming language (C# or Java), but also most likely find yourselves needing to normalize and map objects into a relational scheme or rows and columns. The nice thing about the technological landscape today is, if your data really doesn’t need to live in rows and columns, you don’t have to force it.

Welcome to the New World.

The general consensus and opinion is: Memory is expensive. Disks are cheap. Developers are resorting to memory to overcome several performance and other bottlenecks inherent with older and/or relational technologies. We often see memory being used as a short term band-aid or treatment of symptoms that actually don’t address the underlying disease.

No, relational databases aren’t a disease. Please don’t flame me. They do many things better than any other data technology. But they don’t do everything. The “one size fits all” approach is dead. If you need performance at scale, but don’t need to force all your data into rows and columns, and you also don’t see any return on investment in expensive memory solutions, then perhaps it is time to look at one of these new “NOSQL” products. It doesn’t take much effort to build a proof of concept, and see which problems you can solve with one of these products. Sure, you might need to take a polyglot application approach (which may also include some complexity issues), but in most cases I believe you’ll find you can achieve results that give you more freedom, fewer sleepless nights, and a system that just works.

If you need fast lookups of values, you can use a key-value store like Citrusleaf or Riak. If you’re dealing with related collections of objects that resemble a “document” then you can download Mongo, BigCouch or OrientDB. Need to walk a complex graph, where objects and connections (nodes and edges) can answer some deep social network analysis questions? Then get a graph database (we recommend InfiniteGraph of course) that treats edges as first class citizens and can traverse those connections thousands of times faster than a recursive join SQL query.

This is the space where we play.

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Objectivity/DB is the original distributed, massively scalable data management and object persistence product that we have sold into leading government and enterprise systems for roughly the past 20 years (we’re on version 10 of the product now).

Last year, we developed InfiniteGraph, an API above our distributed core which allows developers to easily handle their graph data problems without having to learn thousands of methods and all the bells and whistles of our core database. Just download InfiniteGraph (we offer a completely free version), install it, grab some sample code from our Developer Wiki to help start your project, and viola’!

We think InfiniteGraph can solve your relationship analytics, intelligence and social network analysis problems better than anything else out there. InfiniteGraph uses memory and cache to help you get the best performance on your live data, while also persisting relationship information to disk so you never have to worry about losing it all in a *flash* (pun intended).

If you need more of the data management functionality of Objectivity/DB, you can do that too. We’ll consult and train you, and ensure you can make use of all the best practices we have learned and applied to mission-critical government, security and intelligence, commercial, telecom, science and enterprise applications we have supported over the years.

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On a related note with InfiniteGraph : We’re seeing complete applications built on InfiniteGraph, fully tested and deployed in a few weeks on average. It wasn’t too long ago that it took many months, to a year or more just to build anything interesting –- and even then, the slightest breeze or sudden spike in traffic (which was nowhere near today’s “Digg Effect”) could send the whole thing crashing, sending every IT person in the building and remote, scrambling from their dimly lit offices and Quake games to see what was the matter. And after each crisis was resolved (often temporarily), organizations found ourselves wondering (again) how they could economically exploit RAM and other off-disk schemes to speed response from over-burdened relational databases.

It’s good to see this discussion continues… Using memory as a band-aid, given the cost and added complexity, is not a real solution. But as alternative data technologies continue to mature and become more mainstream, at the same time new and cost efficient memory are being produced, I believe the bandaids will give way to truly amazing and blazingly fast systems that solve all our problems… until, that is, the continued exponential growth in data once again overloads those solutions, giving us a whole new set of problems to solve (again).

Thomas Krafft is the Director of Marketing at Objectivity, Inc. (the company behind Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph). He oversees all marketing efforts, including communications and PR, demand generation and content development. Having joined the company in 2008, Thomas brings a diverse experience from more than 15 years working with Fortune companies including Intuit and Veritas, successful startup ventures (including one acquired by Barnes & Noble), and hundreds of clients to which he provided marketing and internet consulting for several years. Thomas holds a B.A. in Political Science, International Relations, from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Responsible for selling strategic database solutions and services to targeted opportunities. The Sales Manager must gain a thorough knowledge of the products’ technical benefits and value propositions.  Consequently, this individual will drive tactical sales opportunities in order to maximize revenue. 

Responsibilities:

• Handling all processes of a complex software sales cycle from lead generation through closed deal. Including price build up, licence negotiation, etc.
• Identify, create, and penetrate new strategic business opportunities (outbound hunting)
• Qualify all inbound lead activity
• Hunting, finding, and calling on: Business Directors and VP’s, Software Engineers, Object Oriented Programmers, Software Architects, Software Development Managers, Engineering Managers, Program/Technical Product Managers, VP Engineering level, Embedded Database Programmers, OODBMS Users, etc.
• Making sales presentations to prospective and current customers
• Meeting or exceeding sales quotas and objectives
• Attend tradeshows or other events as required
• Travel required

Qualifications:

• Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate direct sales experience and results from selling complex software database products, NoSQL products, complex embedded database, and engineering software solutions to developers and engineering users.

• B.S / B.A in engineering or equivalent preferred
• Minimum 7 years relevant enterprise software sales experience
• Established, hard hitting, software sales hunter with engineering software sales experience and a network of engineering and business contacts at all levels, and enjoys delivering new prospects, new design and customer wins, based on sales ability and technical understanding. Someone with a strong engineering background and experience selling into the following markets will do exceptionally well: complex and real-time process control systems, telecommunications infrastructure, complex & real-time financial services, data intensive science, medical and healthcare, and large social media applications.
• A background of successfully selling embedded/OEM software infrastructure products

into the software engineering side of commercial companies

• Experience in selling object oriented or “NoSQL” (“Not Only SQL”) software solutions, highly complex and embedded (OEM) software infrastructure products, OEM database products, and/or having technical software sales understanding which you’ve transformed into a new business development skill set.
• Highly motivated and proven track record building new business
• Ability to manage the complex sales cycle of a technical product
• Extremely organized, proactive, energetic, and a team player

About Us:

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments. The company’s latest product, InfiniteGraph, is a uniquely distributed, massively scalable, graph database that facilitates large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements by connecting the dots on a global scale. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management. Objectivity, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

Objectivity, Inc.
640 West California Ave., Suite 210
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-3624 US
Phone: US +1 (408) 992-7100
FAX: +1 (408) 992-7171
http://www.objectivity.com

Darren Wood is the Architect and Lead Developer of InfiniteGraph, the distributed graph database, produced by Objectivity, Inc. Darren has spent the majority of his career architecting and building distributed systems with an emphasis on elastic scalability and data management. Prior to joining Objectivity, Inc. in 2007, Darren held positions as a Senior Consultant with IONA Technologies and a Development Team Lead for Citect Australia. Darren holds a First Class Honors Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

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Darren Wood is the Architect and Lead Developer of InfiniteGraph, the distributed graph database, produced by Objectivity, Inc. Darren has spent the majority of his career architecting and building distributed systems with an emphasis on elastic scalability and data management. Prior to joining Objectivity, Inc. in 2007, Darren held positions as a Senior Consultant with IONA Technologies and a Development Team Lead for Citect Australia. Darren holds a First Class Honors Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

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Many technologies, such as those in the NoSQL space were developed in response to the limitations of current storage systems as an effective mechanism to deal with these mountains of data. And much of that data is interconnected in ways that, when organized properly, gives interesting and often valuable information. InfiniteGraph was designed specifically to traverse complex relationships in big data, and provide the framework for products built to provide real-time network analysis, business decision support and relationship analytics.

Presenters: Darren Wood, Chief Architect, InfiniteGraph. Mark Maagdenberg, Senior Field Engineer, InfiniteGraph.

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Moderator: Tom Wilson, President, DBTA and Unisphere Research. Presenters: Darren Wood, Chief Architect, InfiniteGraph, and Mark Maagdenberg, Senior Field Engineer, InfiniteGraph.

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Here’s our listing in the ProgrammableWeb API directory:
http://www.programmableweb.com/api/infinitegraph

The ProgrammableWeb API directory:
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

From a database architect’s perspective, crafting a way to traverse a simple table of hierarchies – say, a family ancestry chart – often leads to an unpredictable set of circumstances which predictably trigger the same headache. Suppose you’re using a SQL database to collect all the ancestors of a given record. As you go, you collect the ancestral records into a table. You know you have no more records to collect when the table you’re collecting into doesn’t change. But the criteria for your query comes from the same table, for a kind of self-knot-tying procedure called a recursive self-join.

In many circumstances, recursive self-joins don’t work because architects can’t predict the “shape” of each record in this self-evolving table, which is necessary in order for the relational database manager to keep track of the schema.

Here’s the full article:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/the-other-non-sql-alternative.php

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/08/19/infinitegraph-wants-you-to-connect-the-dots-and-win-big-prizes/

For Immediate Release:

Sunnyvale, CA – August 18, 2011— InfiniteGraph, the distributed and scalable graph database, presents an educational overview of graph technology at the NoSQL NOW! conference in San Jose, CA, August 23-25, 2011. Join us to learn about the latest trends in graph database technology. InfiniteGraph will be exhibiting in booth #6 and Darren Wood, Architect and Lead Developer of InfiniteGraph will be presenting in two separate sessions:

• Introduction to InfiniteGraph, the Distributed and Scalable Graph Database:  a 5 minute Lightning talk on Tuesday August 23^rd between 5-6pm
• Graph Databases: Connecting the Dots in Big Data: a 25 minute presentation on Wednesday August 24^th from 12:30-1pm.

NOSQL Now! is a vendor-neutral forum celebrating the diversity of NoSQL technologies and helping businesses develop objective evaluation processes to match the right NoSQL solutions with the right business challenge.

http://nosql2011.wilshireconferences.com

InfiniteGraph is also challenging developers to create next-gen social and information network analysis applications. Take a shot at developing something unique, cool, new and exciting on InfiniteGraph, and you could win $12,000 in Apple computer and entertainment products! Visit the InfiniteGraph booth #6 for more details or register online to enter the contest and to access the full version of InfiniteGraph.

About InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph, a product of Objectivity, is a unique distributed scalable, NOSQL graph database enabling large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements.  Organizations use InfiniteGraph to discover complex relationships in data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages, technical cost savings and achieve greater return on data related investments by connecting the dots on a global scale.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments. Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success.  The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements.  Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc.  All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

“…InfiniteGraph isn’t about the data itself, but the relationships between data points.  This is where the company differs from services like Couchbase or Mongo, which store document-type data.  It’s all about the relationships for InfiniteGraph, creating new ways of managing that data for analysis purposes.  InfiniteGraph does so by playing nice with distributed file systems, whether they’re from Hadoop, Dynamo, Couchbase or Voldamort…”

Source:
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/08/16/infinitegraph-plays-nice-in-nosql-sandbox-launches-new-tool/

Source:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/16/infinitegraph-steps-out-of-beta-to-help-companies-identify-deep-relationships-in-large-data-sets/

Sunnyvale, CA – August 16, 2011 – InfiniteGraph, the number one commercial, distributed and scalable graph database, is today announcing its commercial release. InfiniteGraph enables a new, cost effective and efficient way of navigating multiple types of databases for discovery of deeper and more relevant intelligence, with real-time decision support.  By being able to understand deeper, more complex relationships within existing and new data, companies can leverage social network analysis and business intelligence to achieve greater efficiencies and competitive advantage. InfiniteGraph can support any number of applications and systems around the analysis of relationships in big data, and does all of this across any number and size of data volumes, in real-time.

InfiniteGraph’s New and Leading Customers

Early adopters were given free access to the initial beta and 1.x releases of InfiniteGraph, which they used to develop, test and prove their advanced application concepts.

Just over one year later, InfiniteGraph today is being used to build next-generation and mission critical systems in government, enterprise and large scale online ventures. Applications include real-time and location-aware web and mobile advertising platforms, military operations planning and mission assurance, and advanced healthcare and patient records management.  Our government business includes some of the largest U.S. government integrators, defense contractors, and government agencies.  Our commercial and enterprise customers include the world’s fourth largest online advertising platform, one of the largest independent mobile ad networks and IPL, an IT services company specializing in the delivery of intelligent business solutions.

“This new commercial graph database is unique because it can massively scale based on its distributed and proven database architecture. A testament to this unique advantage is that we’re launching the commercial release of InfiniteGraph with signed customers, who are respected leaders in their market segments,” stated Jay Jarrell, president and CEO at Objectivity, Inc. “With InfiniteGraph, users are able to quickly and efficiently connect the dots on a global scale – enabling optimal decision support from legacy systems and services.  In this first commercial release of InfiniteGraph, there is access to a free supported download of the database up to a million nodes and edges, as well as a robust list of improved features.”

InfiniteGraph New Performance Features and Improved Capabilities

InfiniteGraph offers multiple new features and enhanced capabilities for customers mining relationships and connections in their big data.

New features and benefits in the commercial release of InfiniteGraph consist of:

• New parallel data loading and accelerated ingest – Import and continuously feed applications with massive amounts of data from numerous, multiple input streams, faster.
• Flexible placement – Organizations can tune their graph data placement for optimal performance.
• Enhanced indexing – Developers have complete flexibility in choosing the indexing option that best supports their needs, ranging from automatic indexing to manual options that can speed performance by 20x.
• InfiniteGraph Data Visualizer – Assists developers in viewing, verifying and testing their data models; is customizable to their models, and understands the types within their data.
• Other Enhancements – Improved SLF4J logging infrastructure support for complete integration with standard logging back ends.  Additionally, InfiniteGraph 2.0 supports faster graph processing and expanded range querying.

“In the commercial version of InfiniteGraph, we continued our emphasis on performance and increased product usability. InfiniteGraph now offers multiple ingest and parallel processing capability improvements that leverages the distributed processing strengths of the product to a greater degree,” said Darren Wood, InfiniteGraph’s lead architect.

Availability and Pricing

InfiniteGraph is commercially available and offered in several licensing options starting with an online download to develop and deploy at no cost up to one million nodes and edges, available at: http://www.infinitegraph.com/download.  The company is offering technologists the ability to develop and deploy their proof-of-concept ideas without budgetary restrictions.  This offer also includes limited online support in addition to access to the InfiniteGraph support Wiki at: http://wiki.infinitegraph.com.

InfiniteGraph is licensed on a “pay as you scale” or usage-based model which allows organizations to expand their storage capacity as needed.  This type of usage-based pricing is often ideal and very cost effective for many organizations.  For those with very large or classified deployments, or that need pricing optimized for their particular environments, the company offers site licenses as well as per-core, server, unit or concurrent user quotations as well.

InfiniteGraph is ideal for Java developers on 32 and 64-bit Linux, Windows and Mac OS/X 64-bit, and will also work in most virtualized cloud environments including Amazon EC2, GoGrid and RightScale.

About InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph, a product of Objectivity, is a unique distributed, scalable, NOSQL graph database enabling large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements.  Organizations use InfiniteGraph to discover complex relationships in data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages, technical cost savings and achieve greater return on data related investments by connecting the dots on a global scale.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success.  The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements.  Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc.  All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:

Objectivity, Inc.
infinitegraphPR@objectivity.com

Sunnyvale, CA – August 16, 2011 – InfiniteGraph, the number one commercial, distributed and scalable graph database, is challenging developers to create next-gen social and information network analysis applications. Do you think you can create a better social network? Have you wanted to create a solution for more relevant advertising and location-aware services? Do you have a big data problem that can only be solved by finding deeper and more complex relationships within your data? Take a shot at developing something unique, cool, new and exciting on InfiniteGraph, and you could win $12,000 in Apple computer and entertainment products, in addition to all the free promotion you will receive throughout the contest! Register online to enter the contest and to access the full version of InfiniteGraph. We’re making sure there are no limitations to your creating the next big thing!

About the InfiniteGraph Developer Contest:

Developers can build any type of software application, web or mobile service around social, game and/or location-based networks. Applications may include process or knowledge management, or anything else which seeks to find and leverage complex relationships between objects. These valuable connections can be anything – such as: people, points on a map or topics of interest. Contest participants must register to download InfiniteGraph, and then submit their presentations and code before Friday, September 30, 2011.

How to Enter:

• To register for the contest and download InfiniteGraph, visit: http://www.infinitegraph.com/contest/win-apple-stuff.
• Developers get to use the full version of our product for this contest.
• Installers (for Java developers, on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms), documentation and support details, such as our Wiki (http://wiki.infinitegraph.com) are provided upon registration
• After you’ve written your code, submit it to us before Friday, September 30, 2011. Contest submissions must include either a video (preferred) or text description of your software, actual working code, and instructions for running it. The InfiniteGraph team will be selecting the winners within weeks of the closing date (September 30, 2011).
• The first prize winner will receive up to $12,000 worth of Apple products including a Mac Pro Quad-Core, Apple Thunderbolt Display, Mac mini, 15-inch MacBook Pro, 11-inch MacBook Air, AppleTV, iPad (64 Gig, WiFi), AirPlay, assorted iPod Nanos and Shuffles you can gift for the holidays, and more!
• You own your code. We just want to talk about it.

About InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph, a product of Objectivity, is a unique distributed scalable, NOSQL graph database enabling large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements.  Organizations use InfiniteGraph to discover complex relationships in data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages, technical cost savings and achieve greater return on data related investments by connecting the dots on a global scale.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success.  The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements.  Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc.  All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:

Patricia Stamos
Objectivity, Inc.
408-992-7186
infinitegraphPR@objectivity.com

Vanessa Camones & Jennifer Lankford
theMix agency for InfiniteGraph
infinite@themixagency.com

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Big Data problems are quickly presenting themselves in almost every area of computing from Social Network Analysis to File Processing. Many technologies, such as those in the NoSQL space were developed in response to the limitations of current storage systems as an effective mechanism to deal with these mountains of data. And much of that data is interconnected in ways that, when organized properly, gives interesting and often valuable information.

InfiniteGraph, the distributed and scalable graph database, was designed specifically to traverse connections and provide the framework for a new set of products built to provide real-time business decision support and relationship analytics. This presentation examines the technology behind InfiniteGraph and explores a couple of common use cases involving very large scale graph processing.

Moderator:

Tom Wilson, President, DBTA and Unisphere Research

Presenters:

Darren Wood
Architect and Lead Developer
InfiniteGraph

Mark Maagdenberg
Senior Field Engineer
InfiniteGraph

For Immediate Release:

Sunnyvale, CA — July 29, 2011– Objectivity, Inc. announced today that it achieved yet another milestone in the history of the company by posting record quarterly revenue for its quarter ending June 30, 2011.  In addition, profit margins for the quarter came in at an impressive 33%, further strengthening an already solid balance sheet.  Continued new customer adoption of Objectivity/DB, Objectivity’s flagship product, and the addition of several new customers for InfiniteGraph, its new scalable, distributed, NoSQL graph database product, led to another record revenue quarter for Objectivity.   For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, 34% of revenue came from new customers, while support and maintenance revenue was a record for the year.

Objectivity President and CEO Jay Jarrell attributed the growth to the realization that Objectivity’s products are solving complex data and graph problems that cannot be solved by other solutions.  ”We are experiencing great success with both our flagship product Objectivity/DB and the initial adoption of InfiniteGraph, our distributed graph database in the emerging NoSQL database market,” Jarrell said.

“With our continued increase in recurring revenue and a debt free balance sheet, Objectivity is well positioned financially as we move into fiscal year 2012,” said Gary Lewis, Objectivity’s CFO.

Jarrell added that he expects to see the volume of new business continue to increase in fiscal year 2012.  ”New business will be fueled by the exciting commercial launch of our massively scalable and distributed InfiniteGraph graph database product and the continued new adoption of Objectivity/DB.” continues Jarrell.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data enabling organizations to discover hidden relationships and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings, achieving greater return on data related investments.

InfiniteGraph is a unique distributed, massively scalable, graph database that facilitates large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements by connecting the dots on a global scale. The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success. The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to each customer’s project and technical requirements. Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

For immediate release

Sunnyvale, CA – July 20, 2011 – Objectivity, Inc. today announces that InfiniteGraph will be exhibiting and presenting at OSCON next week in booth 708, July 26-28 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.  OSCON is O’Reilly Media’s premier open source convention where open source innovators, builders, and pioneers share their expertise and experience, explore new ideas, and inspire each other.

VP of Product Development, Brian Clark, will be speaking on July 28, 2011 at 1:40pm on Leveraging Commercial Graph DB Technologies in Open Source and Polyglot Application Environments. The session will focus on the integration of open source technology with graph databases to solve the next wave of large-scale problems.

InfiniteGraph enables large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements.  Organizations can now discover complex relationships in data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages, technical cost savings and achieve greater return on data related investments by connecting the dots on a global scale with InfiniteGraph.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. simplifies complex data with industry leading, distributed, massively scalable and high performance data technologies. The company’s products provide data management, object persistence and relationship analytics capabilities to enterprise, government and large scale web/mobile ventures which depend on massive volumes of data, and on answers they cannot get directly from traditional relational or specialized data management products.

The company’s core data technology, Objectivity/DB, provides distributed and scalable data and object management. InfiniteGraph, developed and released by Objectivity, Inc. in 2010, supports massively parallel and large scale processing of graph data structures and the relationships between objects.

Objectivity, Inc. is committed to their customers’ success. The company has offices and representatives worldwide, and works directly with organizations, integrators and technical teams to recommend solutions and support options specifically tailored to clients’ project and technical requirements. Please contact Objectivity, Inc. online or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:

Objectivity
(408) 992-7100
InfiniteGraphPR@objectivity.com

Click here to access the slides on SlideShare.

“The challenge for NoSQL members going forward — if they care to — will be to keep the community spirit strong as commercial interests grow even stronger. Given the relative immaturity of the market, there’s certainly something to be said about maintaining the communal vibe and openly discussing their various projects in mass meetups in Silicon Valley and across the country. A rising tide lifts all boats, after all.”

http://gigaom.com/cloud/everyones-welcome-in-the-nosql-commune-for-now/

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“Much of the world still hasn’t caught onto graph databases and how they might be used, but the mania around social networking is changing that fast. Rather than merely inventorying data to serve an application or to or query for analytic purposes, graph databases help their users determine how one piece of data is related to another. In order to capitalize on the moment, Objectivity created InfiniteGraph, an API that sits atop its flagship Objectivity/DB database and turns it into a fully distributed graph database.”

http://gigaom.com/cloud/twitters-success-pulls-23-year-old-objectivity-into-nosql/

http://www.odbms.org/blog/2011/03/marrying-objects-with-graphs-interview-with-darren-wood/

“Although NoSQL has been broadly categorized as a collection of Graph, Document, Key-Value, and BigTable style data stores, it is really a collection of alternatives which are best defined by the use case for which they are most suited.”

For anyone considering non-relational and alternative technologies for their own applications, this is a great reference piece.

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The 451 Group, a leading independent technology and industry analyst organization focused on innovations supporting the enterprise, has just released a new Market Insight report which highlights the market trends around large-scale graph data processing, and the growing enterprise needs in finding relationships and connections in professional, social and other complex, interrelated data.

The report provides details on the development and recent history of Objectivity, Inc.’s distributed graph database product, InfiniteGraph, highlights use cases the company has gathered since InfiniteGraph was released last year, and goes on to identify the trends and competitive landscape that suggest clear and significant market needs for graph database technology.

Objectivity, Inc. has proven deployments and a strong history helping leading organizations address their high-performance, high-volume, and mission-critical application requirements. The company’s expertise is in supporting capabilities extending far beyond those of traditional database technologies.

InfiniteGraph is drawing attention from social-networking services, government and intelligence customers, enterprise tool providers with systems dependent on the mapping of entities and their relationships, and a wider range of applications from corporate human resource management, enterprise business intelligence, and predictive analytics, to network activity monitoring, analysis and response.

To read the full report, please visit The 451 Group’s Information Management portal, here:
http://www.the451group.com/report_view/report_view.php?entity_id=66355

For immediate release — Sunnyvale, CA — Feb. 4, 2011 — InfiniteGraph today announced the release of version 1.1 of their distributed graph database, with a new indexing framework that gives users greater performance on indexing, data ingest and lookups. The improvements will help developers more quickly develop and deploy with InfiniteGraph, to process larger graph datasets and collections containing billions of relationships.

The InfiniteGraph roadmap continues to emphasize performance and support for the requirements of developers and system architects who are leading enterprise and mission-critical government projects. In the six months since InfiniteGraph concluded its beta phase and released the first GA version of the product, the InfiniteGraph team has been gathering valuable feedback and use cases from evaluators. Much of this feedback has centered around the importance of indexing performance and the limitations of other indexing mechanisms.

“The organizations currently looking at InfiniteGraph, are doing so because they understand how this technology could help them get to the real value they seek — the fast analysis of the relationships within their data” says Darren Wood, InfiniteGraph’s chief architect. “There are other graph products available today, but what is drawing developers and architects to InfiniteGraph, is our focus on performance and the requirements at the higher end of systems and use cases our company has a long history of solving.”

InfiniteGraph’s graph processing strengths are well suited to many applications, including those in intelligence, internet systems and services around social media, location based networking and personalization, discovering networks of people that have business, influence or other value, analysis of financial transactions to detect and prevent fraud, and in adding new capabilities to enterprise business intelligence (BI) systems.

InfiniteGraph’s plans for the future

The InfiniteGraph team is planning at least three major releases over the next three quarters, and is also working with key evaluators and developers at every stage of InfiniteGraph’s evolution and expansion into enterprise and government deployments.

InfiniteGraph’s product roadmap and a series of releases planned for 2011 include additional data ingest improvements, and parallel ingest capabilities to truly leverage the distributed processing strengths of InfiniteGraph. The product team is also working with the open source Blueprints project, to provide an interface to the InfiniteGraph product, and which will enable connections to numerous other tools that aid in graph access, query, analysis and manipulation, including Gremlin (a graph traversal language), and Rexster (which would add a RESTful interface to InfiniteGraph). Faster graph processing, range querying and geo-hashed indexes are also slated for upcoming releases within this same timeframe. Additionally, options will be made available for developers to relax InfiniteGraph’s fully ACID compliant consistency model, to allow reduced contention and significantly speed performance as per the particular application requirements.

About InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph is a distributed, scalable graph database and developer API which enables large-scale and fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery in systems and services developed around social networking, business intelligence, scientific research, national security and other advanced, mission critical requirements. InfiniteGraph offers a unique, graph database solution based on a highly-scalable, distributed data persistence technology that has been deployed in some of the most advanced and mission-critical enterprise and government systems in operation today. Organizations can use this solution to discover complex relationships in their data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings. For more information, visit InfiniteGraph.com.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. is a leader in distributed, scalable data management technology, and provides the core technology for InfiniteGraph. The company’s patented distributed data engine and persistent object store is the enabling technology within many markets, powering some of the most complex applications and mission critical systems used in commercial, enterprise, government and research organizations today. Objectivity, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Contact Objectivity, Inc. online at Objectivity.com, or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

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Note to editors: Objectivity, Objectivity, Inc., Objectivity/DB and InfiniteGraph are trademarks of Objectivity, Inc. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:

Objectivity Public Relations
Email: public-relations@objectivity.com

How much faster is this version? We’ve seen 100x faster performance in some scenarios, such as processing multiple indexed fields with large index sizes.

The InfiniteGraph roadmap continues to emphasize performance and support for the requirements of developers and system architects who are leading enterprise and mission-critical government projects. In the six months since InfiniteGraph concluded its beta phase and released the first GA version of the product, the company and project team have been hard at work, gathering feedback and use cases from evaluators and developers. Much of this feedback has centered around the importance of indexing performance and the limitations of other indexing mechanisms.

“The organizations currently looking at InfiniteGraph, are doing so because they understand how this technology could help them get to the real value they seek — the fast analysis of the relationships within their data” says Darren Wood, InfiniteGraph’s chief architect. “There are other graph products available today, but what is drawing developers and architects to InfiniteGraph, is our focus on performance and the requirements at the higher end of systems and use cases our company has a long history of solving.”

InfiniteGraph’s graph processing strengths are well suited to many applications, including those in intelligence, internet systems and services around social media, location based networking and personalization, discovering networks of people that have business, influence or other value, analysis of financial transactions to detect and prevent fraud, and in adding new capabilities to enterprise business intelligence (BI) systems.

Future plans…

InfiniteGraph’s product roadmap and a series of releases planned for 2011 include additional data ingest improvements, and parallel ingest capabilities to make the most of InfiniteGraph’s distributed processing strengths. The product team is also working with the open source Blueprints project, to provide an interface to InfiniteGraph, and which will enable connections to several other tools that aid in graph access, query, analysis and manipulation. These include Gremlin (a graph traversal language), and Rexster (which would add a RESTful interface to InfiniteGraph). Faster graph processing, range querying and geo-hashed indexes are also slated for upcoming releases within this same timeframe. Additionally, options will be made available for developers to relax InfiniteGraph’s fully ACID compliant consistency model, to allow reduced contention and significantly speed performance as per their particular requirements.

The InfiniteGraph team has been very excited to be involved in, and help support, many of the developer community efforts and discussions around new, alternative and NOSQL technologies. We see companies and projects every day that simply don’t know they can actually solve their big data challenges. The more we can help spread the word, the better for them, and all the other technologies in this space.

A note for evaluators: We have flexible evaluation, licensing and usage options. Many of the more interesting use cases we’re seeing are coming from new ventures and startups with limited finances. Again, anyone interested may evaluate InfiniteGraph for free. If our product aligns with your long term technical requirements, let us know. We will work with you to determine the license and pricing options best suited to your short term needs, and long term success.

We also invite developers to join our free InfiniteGraph Startup Program. The Startup Program allows qualified new companies to use InfiniteGraph on any virtualized cloud platform or distributed environment of their choosing, without any cost for the technology, other than the various cloud providers’ standard usage fees. Our field engineers will work with you to create the machine image you need, on the cloud platform of your choice.

About InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph is a distributed, scalable graph database and developer API which enables large-scale graph processing, data analytics and discovery in systems and services developed around social networking, business intelligence, scientific research, national security and other advanced, mission critical requirements. InfiniteGraph offers a unique, graph database solution based on a highly-scalable, distributed data persistence technology that has been deployed in some of the most advanced and mission-critical enterprise and government systems in operation today. Organizations can use this solution to discover complex relationships in their data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings. For more information, visit InfiniteGraph.com.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. is a leader in distributed, scalable data management technology, and provides the core technology for InfiniteGraph. The company’s patented distributed data engine and persistent object store is the enabling technology within many markets, powering some of the most complex applications and mission critical systems used in commercial, enterprise, government and research organizations today. Objectivity, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Contact Objectivity, Inc. online at Objectivity.com, or call (408) 992-7100 for more information.

Here’s the website: http://nosqltapes.com/

And here’s a recent editorial written about the site, which has become a major resource for NOSQL education and learning.

GigaOm: “The NoSQL tapes and documenting a technical movement”
http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-nosql-tapes-and-documenting-a-technical-movement

We’ll also be at QConSF in San Francisco starting tomorrow and our chief architect Darren Wood is giving a presentation on distributed graphs.

The format was simple: A round-table discussion among the panel, with as much audience participation and questions as possible. No slide presentations or marketing pitches. Representatives of different projects of course highlighted their respective strengths when answering some related questions, but in a way that was appropriate to the conversation and audience expectations.

Throughout the evening, the discussion was mostly focused on the reasons why end-users are beginning to adopt new technologies. The panelists talked about how demand is driving innovation, and that many requirements are not – or not easily – supported by traditional relational technologies. It’s difficult diving too deep into technical details in this setting, but the overall discussion was informative, and gave everyone a chance to hear the latest perspectives.

Panelists included technology leaders from 10gen (a MongoDB company), Basho (open source internet scale data store), CouchOne (mobile database), Cloudant (CouchDB hosting), Cloudera (enterprise Apache Hadoop), GoGrid (cloud hosting), us — InfiniteGraph (distributed graph database), membase (distributed key-value database), Riptano (professional Cassandra support and training), and Scality (massively scalable email and media storage solution).

Everyone played nice most of the time. Actually, the evening’s only “controversy” came from some interjections by Ben Black from his front row, center audience seat during the first half — but overall, his comments and few questions were viewed favorably by most everyone. Others in the audience did a good job of making their points and asking questions throughout the evening. Honestly, these kinds of events can get a bit boring when everyone holds hands and sings kumbaya all night. Ben and other attendees had important points to make, and the event format was very accommodating to letting everyone speak their minds.

The panel brought together 10 technology leaders from projects and companies that are familiar to many in this space, from key-value stores to mobile data, cloud hosting platforms, and our own Darren Wood talking about graph databases. Emil Eifrem was in the front row of the audience, and we were hoping more graph-computing related questions would be posed to both of us.

In hindsight, we should have made sure Emil had a spot on the panel. We were trying to get one panelist for each type of solution – but many of those technologies have a key-value component, which of course got a lot of attention during the evening’s discussion. Emil, Darren and possibly other graph projects up there would have helped draw more of the discussion towards graph problem-sets, which Darren nicely pointed out are often different than those faced by users of key-value stores. Regardless, the mix and range of questions was fantastic – and Tim did a great job in keeping the Q&A on track.

The NOSQL Evening in Palo Alto and Tim Anglade provided a great overall discussion of the NOSQL movement, the history and future opportunities for all projects and vendors represented directly on the panel, and all the others referenced by the overall discussion. There are a LOT of alternative technology projects out there today – and we only had space for 10 people on the panel. I hope everyone – even those not there – felt the discussion helped their cause. I know we feel that way, and were very proud to have helped organize this event.

Also very much enjoyed the off-conference conversations during the first social hour, at the break, and among the group that came to dinner with us afterwards. It was good to hear more from the panelists, and others who joined us – including Alex Popescu, Derek Stainer, some very smart guys from Facebook and NetFlix, and others who are using new ideas to build amazing new things.

We look forward to the next discussions and events that promote the benefits of NOSQL and alternative solutions. This movement is about helping people solve various problems with the most appropriate tools available from the open source and commercial toolbox, and we are proud to have helped sponsor and support this event.

Best regards,

Thomas Krafft

InfiniteGraph

By the way, we recorded video from the evening, and should have it available here within a week or two. We’ll keep you posted!

This webinar was held on October 7, 2010, and explores the world of emerging and alternative technologies that are powering the most advanced innovations of today and tomorrow. Presenters provided information to help software developers and system architects understand how and when to leverage a new class of “NoSQL” (or “Not Only SQL”) alternatives to traditional relational database technologies, in support of the advanced requirements of next generation services and application architectures.

Recorded webinar (< 1 hour)
New Data Technologies, Graph Computing and Relationship Analytics in the Enterprise

Slides: Graph Computing and Relationship Discovery in the Enterprise

Presented by Carl Olofson – Research Vice President, Database Management and Data Integration Software for IDC (International Data Corporation)

Slides: Graph Databases – What’s So Different?

Darren Wood – Chief Architect, InfiniteGraph

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sunnyvale, CA – October 25, 2010 – InfiniteGraph, a business unit of Objectivity, Inc. and developer of data technologies enabling advanced relationship analytics, today announced that Students Circle Network, an educational social network for college and high school students, will use InfiniteGraph to support the social networking aspects of the entire Students Circle Network platform and potential connections to Facebook and Twitter systems in the future.  Students Circle Network is a member of the new InfiniteGraph Startup Program, which makes the software available free to qualified organizations using cloud platforms such as GoGrid and others being added to the program in coming weeks.

Having started the Students Circle Network as a personal project, founder Gospel “Gossy” Ukanwoke almost immediately began to receive requests for more services from a growing base of users, making connections to numerous universities in several countries almost overnight. Students Circle Network (www.studentscircle.net) has indexed more than 10,000 courses from over 200 OpenCourseWare member universities across the globe. The social network – which provides students with free course resources and materials, live faculty help, teaching and lecture materials to students, scholarship offers and study groups – will support studies in business, information technology, engineering and computing, architecture and design, science and humanities, and more.  The number of users is expected to grow from 1500 to beyond 150,000 by the end of 2011.

“The InfiniteGraph Startup Program has given us the opportunity to develop this project in the area of social graph, using a very strong ‘NOSQL’ database,” said Gossy Ukanwoke, founder of Students Circle Network.  “Students Circle is preparing for growth right now, and the InfiniteGraph team is providing us with the technical and business resources that will help us at every step and ensure we are ready for the future.”

The online presence for Students Circle Network, StudentsCircle.net, will utilize distributed, highly available commodity CentOS Linux servers and network resources from a leading cloud platform host. Instances of mySQL will be employed to serve web content and course materials through PHP, IX and Java programmed systems. Because such a large growth trajectory is anticipated for Students Circle Network, the organization wants to “future proof” its development efforts by incorporating a highly-scalable and distributed data persistence technology that will continue to support its growth and increasing requirements indefinitely. This combination of cloud computing and scalable technologies is helping Students Circle to serve their audience without worrying about getting popular; to grow without fear of growing.

“Students Circle Network had enormous potential to be an extremely popular and valuable educational social network,” said Jay Jarrell, Objectivity’s president and CEO. “It will be exciting to watch them grow and succeed knowing that our graph database product, InfiniteGraph, will play such a pivotal role in its technology infrastructure.  We’re thrilled to be working with them.”

About Students Circle Network

Students Circle Network, a start-up based in Kyrenia, Turkey, was founded in 2010; it is educational social network that provides free course resources/materials, live faculty/teacher/lecturer help, scholarship offers, study groups and many more services to college and high school students across the globe.  Students Circle has a current index of nearly 10,500 free and live courses from more than 200 OpenCourseWare member universities across the globe.  Courses in Business, Computing, Engineering,  Sciences and Humanities will be offered.

About InfiniteGraph

InfiniteGraph is a distributed, scalable graph database and developer API which enables large-scale graph processing, data analytics and discovery in systems and services developed around social networking, business intelligence, scientific research, national security and other advanced, mission critical requirements. InfiniteGraph offers a unique, graph database solution based on a highly-scalable, distributed data persistence technology that has been deployed in some of the most advanced and mission-critical enterprise and government systems in operation today. Organizations can use this solution to discover complex relationships in their data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings.

For those curious about an emerging tech industry and the non-relational revolution in data management and processing, please come join us for a unique evening at Dinah’s Garden Hotel, in Palo Alto, California.
Panelist speakers by alphabetical order

• 10gen: Roger Bodamer — SVP, Products and Engineering
• Basho: Andy Gross — Vice President of Engineering
• CouchOne (formerly CouchIO): Mikeal Rogers — Employee Number One
• Cloudant: Mike Miller — Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
• Cloudera: TBD
• GoGrid: Paul Lancaster — Business Development Manager
• InfiniteGraph: Warren Davidson — Director, Business Development and Strategic Alliances
• NorthScale: James Phillips — Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Products
• Riptano: Jonathan Ellis — Founder
• Scality: Randy Parker — Sr. Director, North America

Space is limited, please register and RSVP today.

When: Tuesday, October 26, 6pm-10:00pm

Where: 4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA

What:

• 6:00pm: Doors open. Mingle over drinks and appetizers.
• 7:00-10:00pm: Discussion and Q&A with the panel with a break in the middle (coffee, fruit and cookies will be available at the break).

Note: InfiniteGraph will be hosting a dinner afterwards for the panelists and their invited guests. Event attendees are welcome to join us in the Hotel Cabana restaurant across from the conference location.