Sumit Sakar

Sumit Sarkar

Technology researcher, thought leader and speaker working to enable enterprises to rapidly adopt new technologies that are adaptive, connected and cognitive. Sumit has been working in the data access infrastructure field for over 10 years servicing web/mobile developers, data engineers and data scientists. His primary areas of focus include cross platform app development, serverless architectures, and hybrid enterprise data management that supports open standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, GraphQL, OData/REST. He has presented dozens of technology sessions at conferences such as Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Strata Hadoop World, API World, Microstrategy World, MongoDB World, etc.

Articles by the Author

The Power of JDBC Connectivity to Cassandra
JDBC connectivity to Apache Cassandra exponentially increases throughput, decreases CPU usage and uses less memory. Here’s what to expect for a connector.
Sumit Sarkar June 03, 2016
Tutorial on OData Access from D3.js Javascript Library
Spend less time accessing data from proprietary REST APIs and more time building cool apps with this short tutorial.
Sumit Sarkar April 18, 2016
MongoDB BI Connector Options Across ODBC and JDBC
BI professionals celebrated the MongoDB announcement for a new BI Connector in Q4 2015. Now that you have multiple options, let’s understand how each one works.
Sumit Sarkar March 02, 2016
Getting Started With OData
OData, introduced by Microsoft a few years ago, is a standardized REST interface that is quickly gaining ground for its open source approach as well as its exceptional scalability. Here’s how you get started with OData 2 and OData 4.
Sumit Sarkar February 08, 2016
Educators Resource Increases Speeds 80-90%
Educators Resource turned to DataDirect to upgrade their data organization, leading to an 80-90% increase in screen refresh speeds within its key applications.
DataDirect MySQL ODBC Performance with MemSQL
Our experiment shows that the DataDirect® MySQL driver is ~37% faster than the native MySQL driver when used with MemSQL and Tableau. But don’t take our word for it, take a look at the data.
Sumit Sarkar November 24, 2015
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