Microsoft Buys Company That Helps Crunch Messy Data

Acquisition may beef up Microsoft’s big data analytics push.

Microsoft acquires Meta Nautix, a startup founded by engineers from Google and Facebook to help more people crack big data.

The terms were not disclosed, but based in Palo Alto California Metanautix had raised about $ 7 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital and others since its founding in 2012.

A founder Theo Vassilakis, who led the development of Dremel, a system open for consultation of scattered data between different systems code. Dremel has become the core (GOOG ^ 2.02%) BigQuery highly regarded data analysis service of Google. Its co-founder is Apostolos Lerios, former Facebook (FB 3.07%) senior engineer who worked in the photo service of this company, which is home to billions of our own photos and other images.

Metanautix applies the SQL standard (the initials stand structure query language) is used to quiz data from traditional relational data bases to the wild and woolly that do not fit this mold line and  Microsoft exam dumps columns. SQL is the standard language used to ask questions relational databases such as Oracle (ORCL ^ 2.08%) and Microsoft SQL Server.

Being able to apply this same tool to messy non-relational data, in theory it means that companies can learn a lot from various data sources at once. And tens of thousands of SQL and experts can apply their existing skills to new data types.

Therefore, a business analyst for a product manufacturer may wonder how a product sold in the second quarter, but also analyze the messages on Twitter or Facebook to see how customers liked them and they liked what they bought. A set of information is one thing at a traditional database, another set of data is the disruption of social networks.

In a blog post announcing the deal, Joseph Sirosh, Microsoft (MSFT ^ 2.85%) vice president of corporate data do not provide much in the way of detailed plans for Metanautix other than to say that Microsoft technology in the global data platform Microsoft. These include the SQL Server data and Cortana above the products of data analysis.

It was hard to know if the product of years Metanautix the Quest data engine, which cost HP, Shutterfly, and the University of Chicago and customers even be offered separately or whether its technology will be integrated into the Microsoft offering. I guess the latter.