Audience
DW/BI and big data architects, mainframe sort, COBOL and data migrators
About IRI CoSort
What is CoSort?
IRI CoSort® is a fast, affordable, and easy-to-use sort/merge/report utility, and a full-featured data transformation and preparation package. The world's first sort product off the mainframe, CoSort continues to deliver maximum price-performance and functional versatility for the manipulation and blending of big data sources. CoSort also powers the IRI Voracity data management platform and many third-party tools.
What does CoSort do?
CoSort runs multi-threaded sort/merge jobs AND many other high-volume (big data) manipulations separately, or in combination. It can also cleanse, mask, convert, and report at the same time. Self-documenting 4GL scripts supported in Eclipse™ help you speed or leave legacy: sort, ETL and BI tools; COBOL and SQL programs, plus Hadoop, Perl, Python, and other batch jobs.
Use CoSort to sort, join, aggregate, and load 2-20X faster than data wrangling and BI tools, 10x faster than SQL transforms, and 6x faster than most ETL tools.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$4,000 perpetual use
Pricing Details:
Ranges from $4K-40K per hostname depending on hardware configuration
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.
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Company Information
IRI, The CoSort Company
Founded: 1978
United States
www.iri.com/products/cosort
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IRI CoSort Frequently Asked Questions
IRI CoSort Product Features
Big Data
Collaboration
Supported
Data Blends
Supported
Data Cleansing
Supported
Data Mining
Supported
Data Visualization
Supported
Data Warehousing
Supported
High Volume Processing
Supported
No-Code Sandbox
Supported
Predictive Analytics
Supported
Templates
Supported
Data Preparation
Collaboration Tools
Supported
Data Access
Supported
Data Blending
Supported
Data Cleansing
Supported
Data Governance
Supported
Data Mashup
Supported
Data Modeling
Supported
Data Transformation
Supported
Machine Learning
Not Supported
Visual User Interface
Not Supported
Data Quality
Address Validation
Supported
Data Deduplication
Supported
Data Discovery
Supported
Data Profililng
Supported
Master Data Management
Supported
Match & Merge
Supported
Metadata Management
Supported
ETL
Data Analysis
Supported
Data Filtering
Supported
Data Quality Control
Supported
Job Scheduling
Supported
Match & Merge
Supported
Metadata Management
Supported
Non-Relational Transformations
Supported
Version Control
Supported
