Taking Action on Big Data Making BI Easier An Introduction to Vectorwise Richard.Stock@actian.com
Actian Overview Taking Action on Big Data Ingres Vectorwise Action Apps. Cloud Action Platform World class mission critical RDBMS CREDIBILITY, RELIABILITY, GLOBAL World s fastest Big Data Analytics engine PROVEN INNOVATION Taking BI forward, turning Insight into Action LEADERSHIP Privately owned, profitable, growing 30 year history of Database Software, Services and Solutions Actian technology used by over 10,000 customers worldwide Global 24 x 7 Support Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 2
Biggest Issues in BI Today Ease of Use 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant Ease of use is now the No. 1 reason why organizations select a BI platform surpassing functionality, which has traditionally been the No. 1 reason. BeyeNETWORK 79% rated ease-of-use as either very important or essential Only 23% said organization s BI tool easy to learn and use Performance BI Survey 9 (2010): Why BI Projects Fail? 1. Query Performance Too Slow 2010 TDWI Best Practices Report 45% Poor Query Response the top problem that will eventually drive users to replace their current data warehouse platform. 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant Data Warehousing 70% of data warehouses experience performance constrained issues of various types Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 3
Making BI Faster and Easier Business Intelligence The leading BI platform for ease of use Analytical Database World s fastest database for BI and Reporting Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 4
What is Vectorwise? A column store database engine designed for reporting and analytics that delivers: High Performance Ease of Use Compelling TCO It is the world s fastest & most cost effective database! Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 5
Performance (@1TB) 500,000 400,000 Vectorwise: World s Fastest & Most Cost Effective Database TPC-H 1TB Performance Benchmark * Vectorwise 3 May 2011 300,000 200,000 100,000 Sybase IQ 1 Feb 2010 Oracle 26 April 2010 Sybase IQ 15 Dec 2010 Microsoft SQL Server 5 April 2011 80 Cores 2TB RAM 32 Cores 1TB RAM Oracle 3 June 2011 60 Cores 512GB RAM Microsoft SQL Server 30 August 2011 80 Cores 2TB RAM Oracle 26 September 2011 32 Cores 512GB RAM 0 102,375 140,181 164,747 173,961 436,788 209,533 219,887 201,487 $3.62 USD $12.15 USD $6.85 USD $1.37 USD $0.88 USD $9.53 USD $1.86 USD $4.60 USD * Source: www.tpc.org / September 30, 2011 Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 6
Real life validation Leading Polish Social Site Performance problem Old solution took days to run a query Need answers in business time Vectorwise results Sub-second response times Driving revenue and improving customer experience Leader in Online Freight Exchange Performance problem Data volumes growing rapidly Difficult to analyze customer behavior and detect suspicious activity Vectorwise results Running 100x faster Preventing theft through analysis Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 7
Real life validation Clinical Trials Service Unit Leading Medical Research Org Performance problem Increased volume of complex data Efficient generation of accurate data sets for medical researchers globally Vectorwise results Processing reduced from days to minutes Speeding medical research to help save lives Cloud Solution for Smart Metering Performance problem Data volumes increased by factor 35,000 Need to load & process every 15 minutes Vectorwise results Only solution able to process volumes using standard SQL queries Flexible licensing model for cloud solution Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 8
Demonstration Video Comparison of performance between Vectorwise and a database from another leading vendor
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Vectorwise Delivers High Performance Proven to query 10-100 faster than other databases Ideal for ad-hoc analysis and reporting Fast data loading full volumes historic data and/or live feeds Ease of Use Use standard BI tools (ANSI SQL compliant) Load and Go no complex data preparation or tuning no special schemas automatic indexing and compression Easy to manage Low Cost of Ownership Runs on commodity hardware Flexible License models Rapid deployment No need for specialist DBA expertise Green IT Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 11
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Vectorwise Architecture SQL JDBC, ODBC,.NET ANSI Compliant Standard Connectivity Vectorwise Engine Analytic RDBMS Linux or Windows X86 64 bit Server 64 bit OS Commodity Server Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 13
Vectorwise in the Enterprise ERP CRM Vectorwise CRM ETL BI & Reporting Applications Users OLTP OSS Enterprise Data Warehouse Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation 14
Time / Cycles to Process 2-20 150-250 Millions Vectorwise Technology Innovations on industry-proven techniques Breakthrough technology Updateable Column Store Vector Processing Automatic Compression On Chip Computing DISK RAM Automatic Storage Indexes CHIP Parallel Execution 40-400MB 2-3GB Data Processed 10GB Confidential 2011 Actian Corporation Slide 15