As of April 5, 2011, Aster Data Systems, Inc. was acquired by Teradata Corporation. Aster Data Systems, Inc. develops data management and data analytics solutions for enabling data storage and analysis of data sets. The company offers Teradata Aster discovery platform that provides insights from big data through an integrated solution optimized for multiple analytics on various data. The company's Teradata Aster discovery platform includes Teradata Aster SQL-GR, a graph processing engine for graph analysis to solve various business problems, such as social network/influencer analysis, fraud detection, supply chain management, network analysis and threat detection, and money laundering; and Teradata Aster big analytics appliance, a big analytics and discovery appliance helps executives, business managers, IT managers, and analysts leverage breakthrough business insights. In addition, Aster Data Systems, Inc. offers Teradata Aster Database delivers a parallel analytic platform and a software solution that embeds SQL and MapReduce analytic processing with data stores for insights on multi-structured data sources; and Teradata Aster Discovery Portfolio, a solution that provides a suite of ready-to-use SQL-MapReduce functions to accelerate discovery of business insights from big data. Further, the company provides deployment options for Aster database software-only edition, Aster MapReduce appliance, and Aster database cloud edition; and business intelligence and data integration solutions that include Aster-Teradata adaptor integration for data communications, Aster-Hadoop integration, and integration of apache Hadoop across the Teradata unified data architecture. Aster Data Systems, Inc. serves media and Internet, retail, social networking, financial services, communications, and insurance industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Carlos, California.