analytics at the speed of thought: actian express overview
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Deliver faster insight – reduce query response times to seconds Analyze more data faster – explore billions of rows of data in seconds More concurrent users – enable more concurrent BI users to explore more dataTRANSCRIPT
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Turbocharge Analytics for Free with
Actian Analytics Platform - Express 2.0
Jim Hare – Senior Director, Product MarketingTodd Untrecht – Senior Director, Product Management
A Technical Overview of Actian Express
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Today’s Key BI Challenge: Slow Query Performance
Reality: Slow Performance Impacts Productivity and Curiosity
• How to deliver real-time analytics for low latency decision making
• Users waiting hours for BI queries to run impacting productivity
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Ultrafast Query Performance = Analytics at the Speed of Thought
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Transformational ValueData Explosion
?Customer
Delight
Competitive
Advantage
World-Class Risk
Management
Disruptive New
Business Models
Discovery Analytics
Time-Sensitive Analytics
Actian Analytics PlatformTM
Analyze ActConnect
Creating Transformational Value from Big Data
Low Latency
Discovery Accuracy
Actian Accelerates The Entire Big Data Analytics Value Chain
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Designed for Extreme Performance, Scale, and Agility
Optimize and Parallelize
Everything – SQL to CPU
Move Analytic Processing to
Where the Data Lives
Extreme Agility - Rapid Deployment
and Constant Innovation
Extreme Performance at Any Scale
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Extreme
Performance
Edition
Hadoop
SQL
Edition
Express
Edition
Data Science Workbench
Library of 1500+ Analytics Functions
Parallelized Data Flow Engine
200+ Data Connectors
High Performance Data Integration Engine
Industrialized SQL in Hadoop Database
High Speed Database Loader
Vector-based Columnar Database
Massive Parallel Columnar Database
On Demand Integration Modules
Pricing Options Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Free for up to
250GB of data
Actian Analytics Platform Edition Comparison
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Actian Analytics Platform – Express EditionFree community version providing a fast and simple way to improve BI
analytic performance
Core Capabilities■ Analytics Workbench – quickly build visual
workflows to prepare, transform, and analyze data
■ Vector-based Columnar Database – run complex queries against billions of records in secs
■ Management Console – easily monitor and manage your analytics data
Key Benefits■ Deliver faster insight – reduce query response
times to seconds
■ Analyze more data faster – explore billions of rows of data in seconds
■ More concurrent users – enable more concurrent BI users to explore more data
Usage Restrictions■ Store up to 250Gb of raw data
■ Up to 5 concurrent sessions active in DB
■ Execute analytic workflows on up to 10 nodes in a cluster
■ Not re-distributable in any way to a third-party
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Analytics Libraries & Blueprints
Ultrafast Vector-based
Columnar Analytics
Database
Connectivity to A
ny D
ata
Actian Analytics Platform - Express
Enterprise Data
Machine Data
Social Data
Visualization Tools
BI Users
SQL Tools
Data Warehouse
Visual Data and Analytic Workbench
SaaS Data
Actian Analytics Platform - ExpressTurbocharge BI Performance
High Performance, Data
Flow EngineApplications
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Actian DataFlow – Analytics WorkbenchVisual Data Science & Analytics Workflows
• Drag/drop interface with 100’s of data preparation and analytic functions
• Connect, blend, & enrich data and perform discovery & data science
• Build and deploy reusable analytic workflows – without coding
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Actian DataFlow - EngineData Preparation & Analytics Processing Engine
Actian DataPrep
LEADER
On-Node Processing
+ - ≠ ☼ ≡ ∞ ∆ ∑ √ ≈ ∑ = ? # ~ ‰
Read Write Prepare Analyze Read WriteAnalyze
Optimizer
Select from pre-
configured, pre-designed
workflows or functions
Use drag and drop
operators or analytic
functions without
programming
Optimize all workloads for
maximum use of CPU and
nodes
Execute transformation,
Data prep & analytic
processing across cores
on 1 server or a
cluster/grid of servers
Also can run natively on
Hadoop cluster
accelerating data prep
and enabling analytical
processing
High Performance, Scale-
out distribution of
workloads and data to all
AAP Engines
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Actian Vector
Actian Analytics Database - VectorHigh Velocity, Rapid Deployment Analytics Database
SINGLE NODE
CORE CORE
CORE CORE
CORE CORE
CORE CORE
Optimizer4 POINTS OF HIGH
PERFORMANCE:
Vector Processing
On Chip Caching
Multi-Core Parallelism
SQL Optimization
Prepare any data with
Actian DataFlow
NEXT GENERATION
DATABASE
TECHNOLOGY:
Columnar
Compressed
Storage Indexes
Single Instruction
Multiple Data
VECTOR
PROCESSING
Tim
e / C
yc
les
to
Pro
ce
ss
Data Processed
DISK
RAM
CHIP
10GB2-3GB40-400MB
2-2
0150-2
50
Mill
ions
Process data on chip – not in RAM
ON CHIP CACHING
…
Maximal system resource
utilization
MULTI-CORE
PARALLELISM
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Actian Vector Benchmark Results - TPC-H 1TB
0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000
Vector 445,529
Vector 436,788
SQL Server 219,888
Oracle 209,534
Oracle 201,487
SQL Server 173,962
Sybase IQ 164,747
Oracle 140,181
SQL Server 134,117
June ‘12
May ‘11
Aug ‘11
June ‘11
Sept ‘11
Apr ‘11
Dec ‘10
Apr ‘10
Dec ‘11
$57,146
$1,229,968
$460,869
$2,402,706
$753,392
$278,527
$85,621
$1,249,967
$258,880
Hardware Cost(excluding discounts)QphH
Fastest TPC-H QphH@1TB Benchmark (non-clustered)
Source: www.tpc.org / November 20, 2014
World’s Fastest Single Server Analytic Database
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Actian Director: Database Management ConsoleSimple, Easy to Use Monitoring Interface
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How do Express users obtain technical support?
■ Express users can ask questions and receive help for freethrough the Actian Community Support website:
http://supportservices.actian.com/community
What happens if I exceed the 250GB data storage limit?
■ The Express product will stop working. You can send an email to [email protected] to purchase additional capacity or upgrade to the full version of the Actian Analytics Platform
Other Information
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Extreme
Performance
Edition
Hadoop
SQL
Edition
Express
Edition
Express
Hadoop SQL
Edition
Data Science Workbench
Library of 1500+ Analytics Functions
Parallelized Data Flow Engine
200+ Data Connectors
High Performance Data Integration
Engine
Industrialized SQL in Hadoop
Database
High Speed Database Loader
Vector-based Columnar Database
Massive Parallel Columnar Database
On Demand Integration Modules
Pricing Options Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Free for up to
250GB of data
Free for up to
500GB of data
Actian Analytics Platform Edition Comparison
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Get started today! Download and use Actian Express for Free!
www.actian.com/express
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