1. Getting started with Vectorwise
Mark Van de Wiel
Director Product Management, Vectorwise
Thursday, November 01, 2012
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2. Agenda
Background
Vectorwise history
Customer value proposition
Key partners
Demo
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3. 100x (+) Performance Difference – 2003
Custom C versus Relational Database
TPC-H 1 GB query 1
(runtime in s)
30 28.1
26.2
25
20
MySQL
15
DBMS 'X'
10 C program
5
0.2
0
MySQL DBMS 'X' C program
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4. 100x (+) Performance Difference – 2003
Custom C versus Relational Database
TPC-H 1 GB query 1
(runtime in s)
30 28.1
26.2
25
20 MySQL
15 DBMS 'X'
MonetDB
10
C program
5 3.6
0.2
0
MySQL DBMS 'X' MonetDB C program
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5. Database Research at CWI
MonetDB
Open source, columnar, in-memory database for analytics
Runs TPC-H Q1 @1GB in 3.6 seconds
• Fast but still 15x slower than custom C program
x100
Goal: bridge the 100x gap between mainstream RDBMS and custom C program
Started from scratch in 2003
• Data analytics
• High performance
• Leverage modern hardware
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6. Key Concept: Vectorised Execution
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7. 100x (+) Performance Difference – 2003
Custom C versus Relational Database
TPC-H 1 GB query 1
(runtime in s)
30 28.1
26.2
25
20 MySQL
DBMS 'X'
15
MonetDB
10 C program
5 3.6 x100
0.2 0.6
0
MySQL DBMS 'X' MonetDB C program x100
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8. Vectorwise – 8/2008
4 Founders – researchers from CWI
Peter Boncz, Marcin Zukowski, Niels Nes, Sandor Heman
Funded by Ingres (now Actian)
Build Vectorwise into Ingres Database
• Columnar storage
• Vector-based execution kernel
Leverage key Ingres capabilities, e.g.
• Standard interfaces ODBC, JDBC, .NET etc.
• SQL Parser and optimizer
• Utilities
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9. Ingres Vectorwise – Key Milestones
June 2010: Ingres VectorWise 1.0
September 2010: first customer live with Ingres Vectorwise
December 2010: Ingres (now Actian) acquires Vectorwise
February 2011: first 100 GB TPC-H
>300% improvement over SQL Server on identical hardware
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10. Vectorwise Today
TPC-H record holder on performance, price performance and energy
consumption
Current version 2.5 “Every now and then something occurs that tears
up your expectations of how technology will
Global customer base
evolve. […]
Analyst recognition The Vectorwise results are jaw dropping.
[…] Something inside you says, “that’s no car, it’s
“Game-changing technology” a rocket.””
- Donald Feinberg, Gartner Group - Robin Bloor, President, The Bloor Group
“This is definitely a breakthrough. It delivers
faster results at lower costs.”
- Noel Yuhanna, Forrester Research
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11. Vectorwise Core Value Proposition
PERFORMANCE – as a result of software innovation
Fast query response times
Fast project delivery
No expert schema design required
No (expensive) tuning expertise required
Affordability
Modest commodity hardware requirements
No expensive expert resources required
Best-in-class support
24x7, follow-the-sun support available from an experienced organization
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12. Implementation Architecture
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13. Actian BI Partners
Certified/tested In progress
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14. DEMO
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15. Agenda
Background
Vectorwise history
Customer value proposition
Key partners
Demo
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