Looks very exciting, but what does it do that R does not do? For example a lot of the graphics in nytimes.com done using R. I assume that they use massive data

Looks very exciting, but what does it do that R does not do? For example a lot of the graphics in nytimes.com done using R. I assume that they use massive data sets. If a platform like Hadoop is used to get the speed, won't R get the same results? How is Ayasdi different?