Note: this post was co-written by Alex Şuhan and Todd Mostak of MapD. At MapD our goal is to build the world’s fastest big data analytics and visualization platform that enables lag-free interactive exploration of multi-billion row datasets. MapD supports standard SQL queries as well as a visualization API that maps OpenGL primitives onto SQL result sets. Although MapD is fast running on x86-64 CP
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