Another Big Data Database vendor

There is no scarcity of database vendors who claim to handle Big Data today with "blazing throughput", "linear scalability" and "flawless fault tolerance". Every week, I add a name to my research list. This tells us how important the Big Data is for enterprises today and how quickly market is able to respond with some really good innovative solutions. Time to market is the key, however we must recognize that there are some major innovation happened last few years in the field of distributed file system and parallel programming that are making us possible to put together various pieces of the puzzles and come up on solution that works. Here are some of the companies to watch for:

• VoltDB - co-founded by Michael Stonebaker, Berkeley professor and pioneer of Column store database technology. Its a main memory database with stored procedure based operations. It claims speed and scale based on complete I/O elimination. 
• Infobright - Analytic database company head quartered in Toronto. It also uses column store technology and offers real time analytics, web log analysis and more. 
• ParAccel - Another analytic database vendor claims to have blazing speed and throughput using column store. Some of its management team comes from analytic technology vendors like Netezza (now part of IBM) and MicroStrategy. 
• GreenPlum - An EMC company again uses column store technology for big data Analytic. offers solutions in the form of software and appliance. The company is hiring like crazy. 
• SAND - list goes on and on...  column store database vendor focusing on verticals. 

Well, as a database technology professionals I understand the need of enterprise for managing big data and definitely have an eye on the industry and the curve. I am going to have a extensive discussion on the column store technology and architecture in my course this Fall. Great time ahead for database developers !!