Stealth-mode 28msec wants to build a Tower of Babel for databases
Summary
The company — still in stealth mode (until our Structure Launchpad event on June 20) after about seven years of existence — has created a data-processing platform that it says can take and analyze data from any source, and then deliver the results in real time. Their solution was to create a platform able to extract data from any of these sources, transform it into a standard format, and then let users analyze it using a single query language that looks a lot like the SQL they already know. 28msec is based on the open source JSONiq and Zorba query languages and will be available as a cloud service. As for the name, 28msec, it’s a reference to the time it takes for a database to access data stored on a hard disk. After the headquarters, maybe that name will be the next thing to change given the prevalence of flash and RAM as database storage media.