Cogito has announced the availability of its graph database and data analysis solution that allows organizations to quickly query and view massive amounts of data and associated relationships improving data analysis, situation intelligence and process understanding.

The Cogito Knowledge Center has at its core a graph database that, by storing information as graphical nodes and their respective relationships as arcs, provides a powerful way for organizations to overcome the challenges of recursive queries, long wait times and complicated SQL programming required to analyze data with more traditional database technology.

By seamlessly interfacing to Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MySQL, the Cogito Knowledge Center provides a complement to existing data management strategies and offers intelligence and security organizations, life sciences companies, manufacturing plants and others the ability to quickly see patterns in structured and unstructured data and make better decisions regarding the achievement of strategic direction and objectives.

"Today's relational database solutions are good for maintaining and understanding the attributes of information, but they have limitations that make it difficult to quickly and easily see relationship patterns or navigate large data sets," said William Donahoo, vice president of marketing and product management. "Cogito Knowledge Center complements existing data management strategies allowing organizations flexibility and expanded capability in learning proactively from their rich data stores."

The Cogito Knowledge Center is made up of three key components -- The Data Integration Broker, The Cogito Knowledge Center Workbench and The Cogito Graph Engine. These modules are combined together in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and support both Java-based and .NET architectures.

The Data Integration Broker assimilates data into the Graph engine from various sources within an organization. Using virtual data connections to existing databases or pre-identified files in various formats, the Data Integration Broker assimilates data into the defined graph models and ingests it into the Cogito Graph Engine and dynamically tracks the data needs of a query.