Taking Action on Big Data

Making BI Easier An Introduction to Vectorwise

Richard.Stock@.com Actian Overview

Taking Action on Big Data

Ingres Vectorwise Action Apps. Cloud Action Platform

•World class mission •World’s fastest Big Data •Taking BI forward, turning critical RDBMS Analytics engine Insight into Action

•CREDIBILITY, RELIABILITY, •PROVEN INNOVATION •LEADERSHIP GLOBAL

Privately owned, profitable, growing 30 year history of 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 Performance

• 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant • BI Survey 9 (2010): Why BI Projects Fail? • Ease of use’ is now the No. 1 reason why • 1. Query Performance Too Slow organizations select a BI platform — • 2010 TDWI Best Practices Report surpassing ‘functionality’, which has • “45% Poor Query Response the top traditionally been the No. 1 reason. problem that will eventually drive users • BeyeNETWORK to replace their current data warehouse • 79% rated ease-of-use as either ‘very platform.” important’ or ‘essential’ • 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant Data • Only 23% said organization’s BI tool Warehousing easy to learn and use • 70% of data warehouses experience performance constrained issues of various types

Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 3 Making BI Faster and Easier

Business Intelligence Analytical Database The leading BI platform World’s fastest database for ease of use 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 Vectorwise: World’s Fastest & Most Cost Effective Database Performance (QphH@1TB) TPC-H 1TB Performance Benchmark * 500,000 Vectorwise 3 May 2011

400,000

32 Cores 1TB RAM 300,000 Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Oracle 30 August 2011 Oracle SQL Server 3 June 2011 26 September 2011 200,000 Sybase IQ 5 April 2011 Oracle 15 Dec 2010 26 April 2010 80 Cores Sybase IQ 60 Cores 2TB RAM 32 Cores 1 Feb 2010 512GB RAM 512GB RAM 100,000 80 Cores 2TB RAM

102,375 140,181 164,747 173,961 436,788 209,533 219,887 201,487 QphH QphH QphH QphH QphH QphH QphH 0 QphH $3.62 USD $12.15 USD $6.85 USD $1.37 USD $0.88 USD $9.53 USD $1.86 USD $4.60 USD Price/QphH Price/QphH Price/QphH Price/QphH Price/QphH Price/QphH Price/QphH Price/QphH * Source: www.tpc.org / September 30, 2011

Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 6 Real life validation

Leading Polish Social Site Leader in Online Freight Exchange Performance problem Performance problem Old solution took days to run a query Data volumes growing rapidly Need answers in business time Difficult to analyze customer behavior and detect suspicious activity Vectorwise results Vectorwise results Sub-second response times Running 100x faster Driving revenue and improving customer experience Preventing theft through analysis

Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 7 Real life validation

Clinical Trials Service Unit

Leading Medical Research Org Cloud Solution for Smart Metering Performance problem Performance problem Increased volume of complex data Data volumes increased by factor 35,000 Efficient generation of accurate data Need to load & process every 15 minutes sets for medical researchers globally Vectorwise results Vectorwise results Only solution able to process volumes Processing reduced from days to using standard SQL queries minutes Speeding medical research to help save Flexible licensing model for cloud lives solution

Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 8 Demonstration Video

Comparison of performance between Vectorwise and a database from another leading vendor Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 10 Vectorwise Delivers

Low Cost of High Performance Ease of Use Ownership

• Proven to query 10 - • Use standard BI • Runs on commodity 100 faster than tools (ANSI SQL hardware other compliant) • Flexible License • Ideal for ad-hoc • Load and Go models analysis and • no complex data • Rapid deployment reporting preparation or tuning • No need for • Fast data loading • no special schemas specialist DBA • full volumes historic • automatic indexing expertise and compression data • Green IT • and/or live feeds • Easy to manage

Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 11 Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 12 Vectorwise Architecture

SQL ANSI Compliant JDBC, ODBC, .NET Standard Connectivity

Vectorwise Engine Analytic RDBMS

Linux or Windows 64 bit OS X86 – 64 bit Server Commodity Server

Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 13 Vectorwise in the Enterprise

ERP

CRM Vectorwise £ BI & Reporting Users Applications CRM ETL OLTP Enterprise Data OSS Warehouse

Confidential © 2011 Actian Corporation 14 Vectorwise Technology

Innovations on industry-proven techniques Breakthrough technology

Updateable Column Store Vector Processing

Automatic Compression

On Chip Computing

DISK Millions

RAM

250 -

150 CHIP

Automatic Storage Indexes

20

- 2

Time / Cycles TimeCycles / to Process 40-400MB 2-3GB 10GB Parallel Execution Data Processed

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