I have been very impressed with the functionality BlueCore offers https://www.bluecore.com/ They have a masking solution that can be used with relational and non relational data sources which is a critical requirement at Census. They also have the ability to preserve the…

Ease of use in finding and retrieving data. Having the data stored without providing the meta data for the user is of no value. it needs an interface with access to data that provides more than key word search.

Depends what you want to do. Exadata is a hardware solution ORACLE offers to increase performance for high volume data processing, plays very well if you are an ORACLE shop. If you tech stack is IBM based, DB2, Websphere etc then I would certainly look at Netezza…