Sclera intros analytics virtualization software

WALNUT, USA: Sclera, Inc. announces the launch of ScleraDB, the industry's first analytics virtualization software.

Targeted towards busy business intelligence professionals, ScleraDB makes advanced analytics libraries such as Apache Mahout and Apache OpenNLP accessible through easy to use SQL extensions; they can now simply link ScleraDB to the data sources, and fire SQL queries that perform machine learning, text analytics, and more, said a company release.

Analytics solutions available today have a tight coupling of their database system, analytics libraries, and even the reporting (visualization) interface. This is a compromise, since it is unlikely that a product is the best at each of the three.

ScleraDB decouples applications from the underlying infrastructure. With ScleraDB, users can choose the infrastructure and libraries based on their needs. This choice does not affect how they write their queries or build their application.

ScleraDB works with "big data" technologies such as Apache HBase and Apache Mahout , as well as with less scalable, but more versatile, technologies such as Weka . In fact, ScleraDB can help users with vendor selection, enabling them to write their application first, and then pick the infrastructure that works best for their needs.

"Sclera is committed to simplifying the use of analytics -- this is just the first step," said Prasan Roy, founder, Sclera Inc.