Startup brings together OLTP, OLAP and Spark

The three principles behind the creation of the Pivotal GemFire in-memory data grid today announced that their new startup has secured $3.65 million in series A funding, led by Pivotal, GE Ventures and GTD Capital.The startup, SnappyData, has developed an in-memory hybrid transactional analytics database that brings together OLTP, OLAP and Apache Spark to ease the pain of customers that until now have had to custom-stitch streaming, transactional and analytical environments together.SnappyData's