Are you concerned about your database's performance as you add data and new data-sources? Are you facing demands from business users who require real-time and ad-hoc analytics with quick-loading dashboards in their rapidly-expanding ecosystems? In this fun-filled session, you will learn about approaches to solving these and other performance problems while visualizing your data using a variety of tools.

The present trend is to empower users to choose the best BI tool for the job rather than have IT prescribe a single tool that everyone must use; this session will help you understand how the queries work that power these visualization tools.

We will also compare and explore the performance of the same datasets running on a variety of popular database systems.

Nick Makos

Director of Support,
Actian

Nick Makos, Director of Support at Actian, leads the support teams for Actian Vector, Ingres and Vector in Hadoop.

Nick has over twenty years of experience supporting and working with a variety of databases from his early days with Ingres to the pioneering of Actian Vector in Hadoop.

Nick joined Computer Associates in 1996 and held various roles in the Ingres team which eventually became Actian. Born in Greece, Nick earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Queens College.