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Sun and ParAccel

Organizations face unprecedented competition in today's global marketplace, and must be able to differentiate their service and solution offerings. To understand current market conditions, adequately position products and services, and compete successfully, firms need comprehensive, timely business intelligence. The Ultra-Fast Data Warehouse, powered by Sun and ParAccel, is the first data warehouse appliance to bring ultra-fast performance, scalability, and simplicity to market at breakthrough price/performance levels. The Ultra-Fast Data Warehouse combines the high-performance MPP-columnar ParAccel Analytic Database and Sun servers into a powerful, flexible, analytic appliance that helps businesses gain a true competitive advantage.


About ParAccel

ParAccel, Inc. is the proven leader in analytic performance and price-performance. The ParAccel Analytic Database combines patent-pending innovations with a columnar, compressed, massively parallel, all-in-memory-capable architecture and is available as a packaged appliance on Sun hardware known as Ultra-Fast Data Warehouse powered by Sun and ParAccel.

Solution Overview

Ultra-Fast Data Warehouse (UFDW), powered by Sun and ParAccel, is a fast and scalable solution that transforms business intelligence from a high-maintenance, costly and difficult proposition to one that is simple, powerful, and cost-effective. The integrated appliance consists of the ParAccel Analytic Database and Sun hardware. It combines Sun Fire data servers, like the Sun Fire X64, X4150, X4540 and X4600, with ParAccel's MPP-columnar database to deliver ultra-fast performance, scalability and simplicity at breakthrough price/performance levels.

At a Glance

The ParAccel Analytic Database
The ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) is a robust, patent-pending RDBMS honed for high-performance analytic workloads. PADB delivers 20X 4000X faster performance than existing databases on customer workloads. With exceptional price-performance and linear scalability PADBs schema neutral approach enables high-performance, load-and-go implementations without manual tuning structures like indexes, materialized views and summary tables.

Key Benefits

  • High-Performance — 20X 4000X faster than existing data warehouse solutions.
  • Linear Scalability — Scales to hundreds of nodes with predictable performance.
  • Analytic Sophistication — Omne Optimizer accelerates complex queries and supports unlimited table joins.
  • Simple and flexible — Schema neutral approach and load-and-go implementations deliver superior performance without tuning constructs such as summary tables, indexes and materialized views.
  • Enterprise ready — Integrated high availability (HA), backup and recovery, and disaster recovery (DR) features.
  • Affordable — Core for Core, the best performance money can buy.

Key Features

  • Delivered as a pre-configured, pre-staged system that is ready to load and operate.
  • Utilizes small footprint, scalability and power efficiencies of Sun Fire X64, X 4150, X4540, X4600 storage servers.
  • Leverages ParAccel's columnar orientation and unique adaptive data compression techniques.