{"id":1968,"date":"2013-11-01T01:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T01:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2020-03-31T00:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:46:31","slug":"talk-summary-what-is-acunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/talk-summary-what-is-acunu\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk Summary: What is Acunu?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently attended a talk by a sales engineer for Acunu (http:\/\/www.acunu.com\/<\/a>), an analytics platform for Cassandra. I came away with a couple interesting notes:
\n– The product aims to build data cubes for you in a “big data” scenario
\n– Operating on the principle that disk space is cheap, they increment lots of counters on insert
\n– These counters correspond to specific cube + filter + grouping scenarios
\n– It sounds like treating cells in a database as counters is a Cassandra feature (I think I’d heard similar about Redis)
\n– They can also do “normal” count queries – if you had 20 dimensions, you’d be forced to build 20! cubes otherwise
\n– Like all cubes, this can still cause issues with double-counting (if you added two cubes) so it’s not really preferable if you work with “small” data
\n– Their UI has some out of the box charting capacity (with High Charts)
\n– Pricing is based on usage (i.e. rather than cores)
\n– This is possibly a competitor to MetaMarkets Druid (http:\/\/metamarkets.com\/product\/technology\/<\/a>), which I covered previously<\/a><\/p>\n

What would be interesting here, for further research, is to compare the performance of NoSql counters and see if similar functionality can be had with a relational database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently attended a talk by a sales engineer for Acunu (http:\/\/www.acunu.com\/), an analytics platform for Cassandra. I came away with a couple interesting notes: – The product aims to build data cubes for you in a “big data” scenario – Operating on the principle that disk space is cheap, they increment lots of counters … <\/p>\n

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