Q&A: Sybase Addresses Big Data- WatersTechnology.com | Big Data Research | Scoop.it

Sybase has announced the newest version of its analytics database, Sybase IQ. This latest release, 15.4, is aimed at helping clients handle the challenges of mining big data. The vendor has expanded support for in-database analytics and IQ now integrates with Apache Hadoop, an open-source framework used for data analysis. The tool also has predictive model markup language (PMML) support and an expanded library of statistical and data mining algorithms. Dan Lahl, senior direct of product marketing at Sybase, and Neil McGovern, senior director of marketing for the financial services industry at Sybase, spoke to BST about the trends in the big data space and what the industry can expect from future Sybase releases.