In terms of "in general", there's mapd, a startup doing something on a very similar space http://mapd.com/ http://mapd.com/ It's definitely the case that our w

In terms of "in general", there's mapd, a startup doing something on a very similar space http://mapd.com/ http://mapd.com/ It's definitely the case that our work is not ready to be shrink-wrapped and sold. But the need for it is there. I'm no longer at AT&T Research and can't answer for their current needs, and I unfortunately cannot talk about the usage scenarios when I was there. There's the academic paper you can read, http://nanocubes.net/paper.pdf http://nanocubes.net/paper.pdf, which has a few examples. In practical terms, the difference in a system that has latency of a few seconds to one in which the queries come back in 60fps is significant, and enables a bunch of interesting stuff that might not be obvious at first sight.