PARACCEL ANALYTIC PLATFORM

Core Analytic

The ParAccel Analytic Database is built from the ground up for high performance analytics. It is the fastest analytic data- base on the planet. Expect a rapid analytic discovery process, quicker time to analytic value, and on-demand processing of analytic complexity never thought possible.

Companies around the globe have started to hit Five Performance Top 3 Benefits the wall when it comes to analytics. With new sources like social media entries and machine- u Accelerate Analytic Discovery: Design Principles generated data, the sheer amount of informa- Increase innovation across tion continues to explode. A growing range of Massively Parallel Processing (MPP): all levels of the enterprise by users and increased analytic sophistication, PADB is built on a massively parallel process- accelerating the time it takes to along with the need for the most current data, ing architecture that utilizes multiple compute iterate through analytic turns – are forcing companies to look beyond their nodes in conjunction with a leader node. discover new analytic applications traditional relational for the process- The leader node manages the queries and and explore new analytic ing power they need. The ParAccel Analytic compiling, then distributes the queries to the complexity Database has been built from the ground up for compute nodes. Intermediate result sets are u Speed Time to Analytic Value: high performance analytics. It was designed to then routed and consolidated through the Experience faster query times, speed through complex analytics on massive leader node and made available to the request- faster access to analytics, faster amounts of data. ing user or application. An MPP approach analytic discovery, all with access gives PADB virtually unlimited linear scaling to more detailed and diverse data Overview for massive data, analytic complexity, and – increase your return on analytic increasing numbers of users. investments ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) is at the Columnar: core of ParAccel Analytic Platform. Our ana- u Open the Door for On-Demand While some vendors add columnar storage to lytic database was designed with five principles Analytic Processing: their existing architecture, PADB has been built to provide the best possible performance and Allow analysts to run ad-hoc from the ground up as a columnar database. extensibility for analytic applications. ParAc- queries and ask sophisticated This orientation eliminates the need to retrieve cel’s Extensibility Framework, Integrated questions with access to large all the data that would otherwise be required Analytics and On Demand Integration modules and diverse data sets – expose using traditional row-based databases. For in- all leverage the power of the core underlying risk and capitalize on emerging stance, when calculating average age by state database for performance. PADB provides the opportunities using census data, only the data for the “age” foundation for the speed, agility and sophis- and “state” columns would be scanned rather tication that are now required for existing and than all the records and columns in the table. emerging analytic workloads. PARACCEL ANALYTIC PLATFORM

Core Analytic Database Accelerating Analytics with World-Leading Performance

For more information please Adaptive Compression: Industry-Leading contact us at [email protected] ParAccel’s columnar approach also boosts or call 866.903.0335 compression. Data in a column tends to be Omne Optimizer similar compared to the diversity of data stored www.ParAccel.com in a row. For example, data in columns for ParAccel’s dedicated team of PhDs has over gender, city and state will yield a relatively small 100 years of collective experience in optimizer distribution of values that can be compressed technology. Omne Optimizer is the culmination in a highly efficient manner. ParAccel tailors of five years of leading-edge innovation. Com- the compression method to match the data pare our approach to optimizers in traditional types for maximum efficiency. Adaptive platforms that are based on technical founda- compression means less storage space and tions laid two or more decades ago, when SQL better performance, especially compared to was simple, datasets were small, and highly databases that need to expand storage space complex analytics were only a concept. to achieve base-level performance. Just as complex algebraic expressions can be Compiled Queries: simplified into simpler sub-components, Omne PADB compiles queries during query execu- Optimizer converts even the most complex tion. This enables each processor core on analytics into simpler logical components for every compute node to execute with maximum much faster and efficient query execution, efficiency without wasting processor cycles invisible to end-users. In addition, the optimizer on overhead tasks. Compiled queries result works with the database to route queries to in performance improvement up to 100 times the best possible resources. Like an intelligent faster for analytic joins, and from 10 to 50 times GPS system, it takes any given query and finds better performance for more complex queries the best path given the traffic conditions at run and aggregations. time. Translated into analytic performance, that means the following: High Speed Network Interconnect: Communication between nodes within a • No need to re-write correlated PADB cluster takes place using a custom sub-queries — spend less time UDP-based protocol. This approach is key to trying to simplify queries to run avoiding communication overload that would in a constrained environment otherwise take place using standard point-to- • Implement unlimited table joins — point protocols like TCP/IP. ParAccel’s custom find previously hidden connections network interconnect is a critical factor under- between more sets of data pinning PADB’s near-linear scalability. • Use even the most complex In-Memory Analytics: aggregations — enlist more detail, In addition to the founding principles, from more data sources for PADB was built with an option to run entirely unsurpassed data mining in-memory for 10 to 100 times increased analytic performance. In-memory deployment • Optimize the use of processing on DRAM platforms brings the high-perfor- resources — get better performance mance and parallelism of ParAccel to with fewer resources an expanding number of near real-time, analytic applications that were previously The Omne Optimizer frees analysts to solve deemed impossible or too expensive. some of their most challenging problems with unconstrained analytics. ParAccel customers rely on the optimizer to run complex queries that have spanned 40 pages, or scaled to 25,000 lines. Omne enables analysts to pose questions in ways that make sense to their business, rather than spending their time writing, rewriting, and tuning queries to match the constraints of their limited analytic platform. PARACCEL ANALYTIC PLATFORM

Core Analytic Database Accelerating Analytics with World-Leading Performance

For more information please Simplified Enterprise Use the Most Current Data: contact us at [email protected] PADB’s high performance eliminates the need or call 866.903.0335 Integration for additional data structures like OLAP cubes or materialized views that are required by www.ParAccel.com ParAccel Analytic Database provides a number other database vendors to improve end-user of features that maximize integration in individ- response times. This eliminates the need for ual departments or corporate data centers. extensive or ongoing database tuning to maxi- mize performance. Combined with massively Use Any or parallel data loads and schema-neutrality, Data Integration Tool: PADB enables applications and users to make PADB has been built to conform to industry immediate use of the most current data avail- standards such as ODBC, JDBC and ANSI SQL able without placing an undue burden on data- so it works seamlessly with a wide variety of in- base administrators. Users adopt a load and go dustry-standard business intelligence and data approach to analytics. integration tools. These include MicroStrategy, IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects, as well as Informatica and other data integration platforms.

Deploy with Maximum Flexibility: PADB can be deployed on either physical or virtual servers, on-premise or in a public cloud. ParAccel Analytic For maximum corporate flexibility, companies can deploy their own private cloud on virtual Database servers. For minimum overhead, public cloud As the core analytic engine of the vendors like EC2 and Rackspace offer ParAccel Analytic Platform, ParAccel safe and reliable operations. ParAccel is also Analytic Database is a combination of available for use in the MicroStrategy Cloud both brains and brawn to support solution as an Elite Platform partner for high unconstrained analytics at any level performance analytics. of scale or detail. Its software-only Choose the Best Servers and Storage: approach and adherence to industry PADB is a software-only solution that sup- standards enables customers to quickly ports compliance with data center standards take advantage of its analytic power. for servers and storage. It frees customers to • Accelerate time to analytic value with take advantage of hardware innovation rather faster queries, quicker analytic turns, than having to wait as long as 12-18 months as and rapid deployment of analytic they become available in an analytic appliance. applications. What used to take days Customers can choose from a wide variety of can be done in hours, sometimes vendors such as Cisco, Dell, NetApp, seconds. Fusion-io, and HP, without vendor lock-in. • Innovate with analytics never before Leverage SAN Investment: Use PADB in a SAN environment to take thought possible. Increasing analytic advantage of disaster recovery and cloning sophistication opens the door to better capabilities from a number of different vendors. customer relationships, tighter supply The database of record is kept on the SAN for chains, and streamlined operations. protection. Data is mirrored back to individual • Increase competitive advantage with ParAccel compute nodes for optimal perfor- answers in seconds or minutes, mance. ParAccel’s Blended Scan distributes compared to the hours or days it takes ABOUT PARACCEL, INC. scanning across data stored locally and on the others in your industry. Competitive ParAccel, Inc. is the proven leader in high SAN to deliver even faster analytic execution analytics uncover previously hidden performance analytics. Our software-only on larger sets of data. platform provides the best scalability and risks and take advantage of emerging price-performance for the widest variety of opportunities. analytics, unlocking the most value from all available data for both Operational and Discovery workloads.