InfoSphere BigInsights Enterprise Edition

Provides advanced analytics built on Hadoop technology

• Provides sophisticated text analytics with a large library of extractors, which can enable insights from large volumes of native textual data.
• Allows you to use the built-in Hadoop distribution capability or use another of your choice such as Hadoop Cloudera distribution of Apache Hadoop (CDH).
• Social Data Analytics Accelerator: Analyzes large volumes of various types of social media data with real-time processing
• Machine Data Analytics Accelerator: Ingests, parses and extracts a wide variety of machine data with faceted search for easy navigation and discovery and visualization for easy analysis of the data

Is designed for performance and usability

• Offers SQL access to data stored in BigInsights through Big SQLwhich allows new users to leverage existing SQL skills in a big data environment.
• Includes a MapReduce framework that optimizes processing based on user needs and system workloads.
• Provides a workload scheduler to optimize and control job scheduling based on user-selected metrics.
• Includes IBM BigSheets, a spreadsheet-like tool that allows business users to explore IBM BigInsights clusters and create analytic queries without writing code.
• Offers an integrated development environment (IDE) for designing, developing and deploying applications.
• Includes Jaql, a declarative query language, to facilitate analysis of both structured and unstructured data. The SQL-like interface makes it easier for developers and helps simplify integration with relational databases.

Delivers management, security and reliability features

• Includes General Parallel File System - File Placement Optimizer (GPFS-FPO), an enterprise grade Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) compliant file system that brings proven distributed file system capabilities to the Hadoop and MapReduce environment.
• Includes Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) NameNode high availability with failover that is seamless, automatic and transparent.
• Offers predefined rules and annotators, ready for immediate use, to accelerate text analytics.
• Includes built-in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) support, enabling administrators to restrict access only to users with appropriate authorization.
• Provides a web-based administration console for a centralized view of your BigInsights environment.

Integrates with IBM and other information solutions

• Provides big data platform integration—IBM InfoSphere Data Explorer, InfoSphere Data Streams, InfoSphere DataStage, InfoSphere Guardium and Cognos Business Intelligence—to support near real-time analysis, indexing, auditing, data collection and integration, business intelligence, auditing and support for Apache Hive.
• Integrates with the IBM Netezza family of data warehouse appliances to support query and join data using user-defined functions (UDFs).
• Offers high-speed parallel read-write for IBM DB2 and JDBC connectivity.
• Provides a high performance, low-latency platform computing grid.
• Supports the latest WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile feature to provide advanced, secure Representational State Transfer (REST) access.
• Integrates with IBM Rational Team Concert and IBM Data Studio to support collaborative development.
• Allows you to execute R jobs directly from the BigInsights web console.