Data Warehousing Without Limits.The Data Warehouse Appliance powered by Sun and Greenplum is the industry's first cost-effective, high-performance super-capacity data warehouse appliance. Purpose-built for high-performance, large-scale data warehousing, the solution integrates best-in-class database, server, and storage components into one easy-to-use, plug-and-play system.
At the heart of the Data Warehouse Appliance is the Sun Fire™ X4500
server powered by Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. The Sun Fire X4500
server
represents a revolution in server architecture for data warehousing.
With up to 24 terabytes of on-board, high-density storage (48 drives in
a 4 RU system), it delivers industry leading compute power, storage
density, and near-zero latency access to data in a single, integrated
solution. The hot-swappable disks provide 2 gigabytes per second serial
read throughput per system. Utilizing the massively parallel processing
architecture provided by Greenplum's MPP PostgreSQL database, the Data
Warehouse Appliance
distributes data across all disks in the system, enabling
query-in-storage processing for today's demanding data warehousing
applications. The Data Warehouse Appliance powered by Sun and Greenplum
changes the game in data warehousing with low acquisition costs,
quality, global support, and technical expertise.The Data Warehouse
Appliance
truly transforms the economics of data warehousing.
Value Proposition
- Data Warehouse Appliance powered by Sun and Greenplum
- Open Source : PostgreSQL
- Solaris™10 Operating System and Solaris ZFS
- Sun Fire™ x4500 servers with 2 Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors
- Sun Fire x4100 server (parallel optimizer planner)
- 1 TB/mn Scan
- Scale to hundreds of terabytes
- Massively Parallel Processing
- MPP PostgreSQL
- Parallel Loading 500GB/hour
- Modular Design
- 100 TB/rack (DW100 hardware)
- 9 KW/rack
- Global Support
- Sun Solution Center
