CoSort (Transformation) - Why CoSort Is Better

That's why CoSort is better!

Consider the key benefits and differentiators

IRI CoSort: The Price-Performance Leader in Big Data Management

Learn why IRI CoSort is a smarter alternative to other software products, hardware upgrades, and in-house acceleration attempts for: high-volume sorts, RDB loads, ETL tools, and data wrangling for BI and analytical platforms.

For over 40 years, IRI CoSort has been defining the state of the art in the fields of Sorting, DW Transformations, BI Performance Optimization and Database acceleration. CoSort is repeatedly cited as the fastest commercial sort for Unix and Windows, as well as the fastest on-mainframe join and aggregation solution and without Hadoop CoSort utilizes multiple cores, uncompiled execution, task consolidation, advanced I/O methods, and other trade secrets to optimize integration and staging performance. No competitor can match the speed or scalability of CoSort in large, well-configured environments.

From a time-to-information (production) standpoint, no other product stack can match the combinatorial efficiency of CoSort's SortCLProgram integrated functionalities keep up, just as little as the speed of solution design in IRI Workbench, a graphical integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse™.

While most legacy sorting tools, ETL packages, ELT appliances, and shell/programming languages have steep learning curves and metadata challenges, CoSort users define their data and manipulations in self-documenting 4GL-Scripts that are easy to learn and use. The well-known and widely used syntax of the SortCL Programs CoSort is the foundation for all IRI product features. This means CoSort users can easily express and execute many of their data transformation, conversion, protection, and reporting needs in just a single explicit job script (and I/O pass).

However, for those who do not wish to learn another language, the IRI Workbench IDE creates these scripts automatically through guided assistants, workflow diagrams, and other graphical methods; it is a question of which design methodology best suits you.

Large providers and Hadoop sales partners acquire or bundle component technologies that do not integrate seamlessly. CoSort and its IRI Workbench GUI Unify metadata: discovery, conversion, lineage, and management visually with an integrated user interface for job design, execution, team sharing, and version control.

Nur CoSort führt und kombiniert ALLE der folgenden Funktionen mit mehr als 125 data sources:

    multiple data transformations such as filtering, sorting, merging, aggregation, expressions, and re-mapping.
    Database, file format, data type, and endian conversion at the file/field level
    Change Data Capture and Slowly Changing Dimensions
    Pivoting and unpivoting
    Data cleaning and validation
    Data Federation and Replication
    Field-level encryption, data masking, and pseudonymization
    Find/Replace, Sub-String and Combined Data Functions
    Lookups and custom transformations
    Metadata and Master Data Management
    Custom detail and overview reports
    Test data generation
    Multi-Output-Targeting

CoSort Job scripts are executed on the command line, in batch mode, by programs, or by the IRI Workbench GUI. IRI Workbench connects to network-accessible data sources and remote systems for the design and execution of jobs and interacts with them. CoSort users in the IRI Workbench can also extend their operational reach through free and commercial contributions to Eclipse, such as BIRT, KNIME, DTP, Wicked Shell, Toad, Git/SVN, StatET for R, and WSO2.

Only CoSort offers robust data transformation, data migration, reporting, and masking capabilities in one product, one scripting language, one graphical IDE, and even one I/O pass! CoSort consistently delivers the highest speed and functionality for large data users at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO), and requires neither additional hardware nor a risky paradigm shift (e.g., to Hadoop or an appliance).

CoSort is also the only such product with a robust runtime governance infrastructure for granular role-based access control and log management.

CoSort is sold for perpetual use under flexible licensing models that include discounts for: multiple copies, ISV integration, disaster recovery, enterprise-wide deployment, and competitive replacement. Because IRI is such a stable, conservative company, it always offers the best alternatives for high-end data transformation and ETL platforms, even on price. CoSort package licenses include metadata converters, command-line executables, and API libraries, the entire graphical IDE of IRI Workbench, Documentation and one year of technical support.