HP and Oracle compete in massive data services

June 20 HP released Vertica Analytics Platform version 5.0, the latest edition will be combined with HP's own hardware products. HP acquired Vertica earlier this year, which will help HP play a key role in the growing number of data markets.

Vertica is based on column storage. The design based on column storage has great advantage over traditional row-oriented storage database.

At the same time, Vertica support MPP (massively parallel 處理) technology, query data Vertica only need to obtain the required columns, rather than the selected row of all the data, its average performance can increase 50x-1000x times.

Vertica's designers have repeatedly said that their products are designed around high performance and high availability. Support for MPP technology provides an advantage over granularity, scalability, and availability. Each node operates completely independently, without shared architecture, and reduces system competition for shared resources. Under this architecture, adding more nodes can increase capacity and performance. When a node fails, it does not have an impact on the entire system. The other node completes the task of the failed node.

The Vertica database uses standard SQL, while the Vertica architecture is very time cloud computing, including virtualization, distributed multi-node operation, and integration with Hadoop/mapreduce.

HP says it can purchase Vertica packages alone or buy products bundled with One-fourth rack (96-core), half rack (192-core) and full rack (384-core) HP Blade systems.

HP says that their competitiveness lies in the cost of only half of their competitors and offers many times the performance of their competitors. In the current situation, Oracle Exadata system is its main competitor.

is Vertica the right choice to replace the Oracle Exadata OLTP? Exadata may be a good choice when it comes to data warehousing and core analysis. The advantage of Vertica is that it is more precise and flexible, and the cost of maintenance is much cheaper.

HP's chief executive, Apotheker, said the system would "provide real-time analytics for next-generation business intelligence" for web traffic analysis, retail sales trend analysis or drug research. Vertica's client list includes Groupin, Twitter, Zynga, Verizon, Comcast, Sprint, at&t, etc.

HP has dabbled in analytics, but through the new device "HP can really open up the market, especially as a service market." (Li/Translate)

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