CIOs and their chief enterprise and information architects are quickly realizing that the reference architectures and best practices of the past have served them well, but are now challenged to meet the business demands of today’s data intensive and analytical environments. Companies require economical scalability for big data, but also want high-performance; they require information discovery and flexibility, but want to govern semantics and enterprise consistency; they want to benefit from advanced analytics and unstructured data, but also want broad accessibility with SQL. Despite