The company has identified e-commerce and traditional database markets as ripe for the application of its search technology.
It does not fit the traditional database architecture so it can only be analysed by using new technology," Taylor explains.
The new Hadoop has also been tweaked to work more easily with traditional database tools, like SQL.
He described the possibility that dozens of separate data repositories would be accessible by Autonomy software known as the Intelligent Data Operating Layer, which is designed to integrate unstructured text documents and traditional database information.
The challenge is to combine traditional database science with new techniques that harness the power of cloud and cluster computing to handle the massive scale of today's data landscape.
Query processing has been studied extensively in traditional database systems.
It can process unstructured data far faster than traditional database operations.
Traditional database solutions like Oracle and SQL are just not cut out for the job.
Access to Amazon's more traditional database services is not currently an option.
Large datasets include massive volumes of data such that traditional database management systems cannot manage them.
