Real-world Vectorwise Architecture

Mark Van de Wiel

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Director Product Management, Vectorwise

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Retail: Sheetz

Finance: The Rohatyn Group

Social media: Badoo

Advertising: Thomson Reuters

Machine-generated data: Xerox

Government: Irish Revenue Commissioners

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Retail: Sheetz

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Company and business case Convenience store and sandwich shop – East Coast US Traditional BI and reporting application Looking to expand into inventory management optimizations

Why Vectorwise Incredibly fast performance Extremely affordable Migrating applications off Teradata EDW to avoid extending the system

Implementation Pentaho for data loading and dashboards Actian professional services implementation

Won “vendor-of-the-year” award

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“Vectorwise helps to optimize costs, maintain high quality and a positive customer service” Jarrid Magalich, Technical Services Manager at Sheetz

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Finance: The Rohatyn Group

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Company and use case Hedge fund focused on emerging markets Risk management Position analysis to make investment decisions

Not just current but also historical positions Too much data to fit in-memory, yet extremely fast performance required

Why Vectorwise In-memory performance without memory limitation

Technical implementation Wide table with all dimensions denormalized Home-grown JDBC-based application Dual-active high availability

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“For the past 20 years, I’ve been searching for the killer database that would fulfill our most intense data processing needs and with the discovery of Vectorwise, that search is now over – this database technology is in a class of its own. Right out of the box, Vectorwise lets us effortlessly plow through millions and millions of rows of data…The Ingres and Vectorwise leaders and technologists have performed a miracle here.”

Warren S. Master, CTO, The Rohatyn Group, New York

Social media: Badoo

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Company and use case Social media – dating

Built on top of Facebook

Growing very rapidly

Clickstream stored in Hadoop, interactive analysis in Vectorwise Why Vectorwise

Fast performance No need to spend time design summaries

Implementation Custom scripts on top of Pentaho Data Integration jobs to load data Pentaho dashboards for queries and analysis

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“Vectorwise’s performance will make our company more agile and strengthen our competitive advantage” Ian Broadhead, BI Lead at Badoo

Advertising: Thomson Reuters

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Company and use case World’s largest international news agency

Predictive analytics for advertising rates Based on continuous news feeds

Why Vectorwise Fast performance during continuous loads

High concurrency

Implementation Custom PHP for iOS

Machine-generated Data: Xerox

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Company and use case “The document company” Copiers generate lots of diagnostics data Analyze data to

Optimize supply chain for parts Improve customer service by performing preventive maintenance

Why Vectorwise Ease of use to get fast performance

Versus Oracle (too slow, too much tuning) and Greenplum (too complex)

Implementation Pervasive ETL Yellowfin BI for reporting and analytics

Government: Irish Revenue Commissioners

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Organization and use case Tax collection and customs law department More than 200 types of declarations Over 2.2 million individuals and 750,000 businesses Fraud detection and prevention

Why Vectorwise Fast performance without special tuning

Implementation Multiple TBs of data Implementation by Accenture

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“In our own benchmarks and internal testing, we soon realized just how fast Vectorwise was, and as data sets get bigger, that performance differential becomes even more significant”

Maureen Byrne, Business Intelligence Manager, Revenue

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Retail: Sheetz

Finance: The Rohatyn Group

Social media: Badoo

Advertising: Thomson Reuters

Machine-generated data: Xerox

Government: Irish Revenue Commissioners

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