Aster was mentioned in 2010 byIntelligent Enterprise' editor.[5][6]It was ranked seventh in 2011 of venture-funded companies byThe Wall Street Journal.[7]Argyros (Chief Technical Officer at the time) was listed as a technology pioneer of information technology and new media by theWorld Economic Forum in 2011.[8]
Teradata had acquired an 11 percent ownership interest in Aster Data Systems in September 2010.On March 3, 2011, Teradata agreed to pay an additional $263 million for the remaining ownership interest, net of debt and other expenses.[9][10]The acquisition completed in April 2011.[2]In September 2011 acomputer appliance version of the product was announced, with pre-configured software bundled with hardware.[11]Aster Data hosted a "Data Analytics Summit" trade show through 2012, made up of regional events.[12]
In October 2012, Aster announced a second version of its appliance. In addition to the Aster database software, another appliance was available with nodes running theHortonworks distribution ofApache Hadoop.[13][14]
In October 2013, version 6 of Aster database software was announced. It supportedgraph database technology, and a file system that the company said was compatible with the Hadoop distributed file system.[15][16]After Bawa left the company in 2014, he was named a young achiever by theIndian Institute of Technology Bombay (from which he graduated in 1999).[17]
In June 2014, Teradata announced a product using theR programming language.[18]In February 2015, Teradata announced an "AppCenter" using Aster technology.[19] In October, 2015 Teradata announced a set of analytics techniques and applications to run onApache Hadoop, marketed for theInternet of things.[20] In 2016, Aster Analytics was made available on Amazon AWS Marketplace for self-service, DIY customers. It became available at Microsoft Azure Marketplace in 2017.
