451logo “We are seeing increasing interest in graph database
technologies…as a platform for new analytic applications that
cannot be supported by traditional data models.” Cray's YarcData
claims early success for graph database appliance (Matt Aslett,
August 10, 2012)  Graph Analytics Challenge  YarcData Support
In December, YarcData, announced the six finalists for the
YarcData Graph Analytics Challenge. The top six entries for the
contest, which features $100,000 in prizes including a $70,000
grand prize for the first place winner, were determined to have
entered the best submissions for un-partitionable, Big Data
graph problems. The top six submissions span a number of diverse
categories, such as healthcare, law enforcement, sports, life
sciences and social media.  Analysis of multiple types of
cancers and thousands of patients to identify potentially potent
approved drugs that could be repurposed for a given cancer. This
identification is based on multiple sources of information,
including large-scale mo