Databases Are Not Toasters

Databases Are Not Toasters

Databases are Not Toasters A Framework for Comparing Data Warehouse Appliances Omer Trajman (Vertica) Alain Crolotte (Teradata), David Steinhoff (ParAccel), Raghunath Nambiar (Hewlett-Packard), Meikel Poess (Oracle); Growth of Business Intelligence BI has been the top priority of CIOs for past three years BI platforms are growing at 8%+ for the next 4 years Gartner report "Forecast: Business Intelligence Platforms, Worldwide, 2007-2012.” Fundamentals of Business Intelligence More Data Faster Answers Define: Appliance “a data appliance consists of an integrated set of servers, storage, operating system(s), DBMS and software specifically pre-installed and pre-optimized for data warehousing.” -Wikipedia Fourteen Leading Appliances What are Vendors Promoting? Efficiency and Energy Efficiency Pre-installed Large Volumes/Capacity of Data Pre-configured / Fast Expandable in modular units deployment Single SKU Massively Parallel Single Vendor/Single Support Packaged database + application Specialized hardware Packaged database plus Specialized software hardware Special purpose or purpose built Bundled Solution vs. Appliance Self managing or self tuning Bundled pricing What are two Key Properties? Scalability of data and nodes Simplicity of setup What aren’t vendors promoting? Raw Speed of queries Price/Performance Existing Benchmarks Exist for… Raw Speed of queries Price/Performance What is an Appliance Benchmark? Scalability of data and nodes Simplicity of setup Databases are Not Toasters The authors would like to thank Karl Huppler, Michael Corwin, Kannan Govindarajan for participating in the survey. Omer Trajman – [email protected] Alain Crolotte – [email protected] David Steinhoff – [email protected] Raghunath Othayoth Nambiar – [email protected] Meikel Poess – [email protected].

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