Vectorwise is a database technology that provides significantly faster performance (up to 70x) than other market-leading databases for analytic workloads. It is easy to set up, load data, and start running queries without complex schema design or expert tuning. Vectorwise leverages modern chip technology to efficiently analyze large datasets using commodity servers. This allows organizations to gain faster insights from big data at a lower cost.

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What is Vectorwise?
Today’s business software hasn’t kept pace with the explosive growth of
data. This means that the software you rely on is often unable to analyze
data on the scale you need to make the best decisions possible. As a result,
many critical business decisions are made based on inadequate or sum-
marized data sets because today’s software can’t provide the analysis and
insights you need when you need them.
Taking action on Big Data is impossible if you cannot even gain the insights required to
make business decisions. Actian enables you to take action on Big Data using Vectorwise
as the enabling foundation.
Vectorwise represents a step-change in database technology. By unlocking the capabilities
of the modern chip, our customers and partners report 10x–70x better performance ben-
efits for analytic workloads. Those queries which currently take you minutes can be cut to
seconds. The answers you’ve been told are too expensive to compute can be delivered using
commodity servers and don’t require expert tuning. Vectorwise can power your business in
four easy steps: install, load data, gather statistics and start running queries. This skips
over complex, time-consuming steps such as complex schema, data load design and
expert tuning that you would normally expect to take hours or even days.
“We ported a business application from oracle to Ingres Vectorwise Database and were
astounded by the substantial performance increases, which were up to 70x better. our
customers are also tired of paying for Big Software prices so we are always on the look-
out for more cost effective solutions. With Ingres Vectorwise Database, we get the best
of both worlds; we can now offer our customers a lower cost and a better performing
analytic database.”
Michael Thuleweit, Managing Director, Datamatics
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Benefits
Significantly Increased Performance
our clients report 10x – 70x better performance at a fraction of the hardware cost com-
pared with the results of other market-leading DBMS products.
Simple to Use
Vectorwise is easy to set up and run, requires no expert schema design or tuning and
“The more work we makes a rapid impact on business decisions. This reduces cost and risk thereby accelerat-
throw at Ingres ing Business Intelligence (BI) projects and their success.
Vectorwise, the faster
it is relative to other Affordable
databases. Ingres enlisting a single commodity server, Vectorwise delivers the performance of a cluster of
Vectorwise could do servers using other technologies. using less hardware is less expensive but also results in
any query we tested in lower power consumption as well as less use of space in the data center and lower costs
under one second,
to cool down the data center. Vectorwise delivers fast performance without the need for
where the same query
special schema design or expert tuning.
took several minutes
on another database.”
Low risk
Dan Sanders The performance and simplicity of the technology has been proven by our customers and
engineer, Advanced ecommerce
partners. This technology is supported by Actian whose global support capabilities continue
research Systems
to be demonstrated by over 10,000 customers running mission critical workloads around
the world. customers report that answers to complex business queries that previously
took several minutes are now available in seconds.
What our partners say
Partners report that the amount of time analytical or BI projects previously took can now
be cut in half using Vectorwise.
Fully utilize current hardware
Vectorwise can now efficiently exploit the 95% of modern chip capability that isn’t
currently utilized by business software, rather than forcing chip customization or blindly
throwing hardware at the problem.
Lower overall TCO
As Vectorwise enables better performance with less hardware, the outcome is more than
10x better performance at a fraction of the hardware cost. In addition, the simple self-
tuning technology reduces the need for scarce specialist resources.
Improved green credentials
Vectorwise delivers dramatically greater performance with small servers and produces
radical reductions in disk storage which significantly reduces power and air
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Is Vectorwise right for my organization?
Vectorwise is perfect for analyzing large volumes of data such as web clicks, stock ticks
and call records. If you or your organization often analyze huge amounts of historical data
with ad hoc or complex queries and your performance or business depends on the speed,
accuracy or frequency of turnaround, then Vectorwise is worth investigation. If you recog-
“The speed is blindingly nize the need to take action on Big Data then you should definitely evaluate Vectorwise.
fast right out of the box
examples of use cases can be found in most industries including but not limited to:
and it eliminates layers
of work that had to be
› Web analytics and cross-selling analysis for ecommerce
done in the past. Ingres
Vectorwise uses automat- › risk or asset management compliance and fraud detection for Financial Services
ed compression and in- organizations
dexing which eliminates › call data record analysis and customer retention in Telcos
the need to spend extra
hours tuning and tweak-
› Viewing figure analysis in Television and Media
ing our data. This means › customer loyalty analysis in retail
we are now able to cut
the time of our business
intelligence engagements How does Vectorwise achieve its groundbreaking speed?
with our customers by
There are three main areas of innovation:
up to 50%.”
Roy Hann, rational commerce 1. Vector processing takes full advantage of the modern microprocessor driving up to
100 fold improvements in processing performance.
2. Vectorwise is designed for on-chip cache memory which is two orders of magnitude
faster than rAM.
3. Self optimizing, compressed column store means only the data needed for the query
is streamed directly to the chip cache. This means fewer disks which helps reduce
power and storage costs.
This ground-breaking product, Vectorwise, is a combination of the Ingres database and
technology from Vectorwise, a spin-out from the renowned cWI institute in Amsterdam.
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As an ISV, what does Vectorwise mean to my organization?
hundreds of ISV organizations around the world are already taking advantage of the Actian
Partnership Plus Program, specifically designed to support the ISV community within the
context of today’s technology landscape. Part of our pledge to our partner community is
to constantly invest in technology that cuts Tco and maximizes ISV revenue.
Vectorwise is a testament to this approach. By developing your solutions on Vectorwise,
you are given the ability to handle unprecedented amounts of data on very simple hardware
which opens a raft of new possibilities in analytic applications.
This comes with the added assurance of Actian’s world class technical and marketing
support.
The power of today’s chip technology
Intel® collaborates with enterprise software ecosystem leaders and innovators and enables
business applications to perform best on Intel architecture. The Vectorwise project and
resulting new software, combined with the Intel micro architecture, delivers breakthrough
performance in data analytics processing and lowers Tco for the enterprise.
As a result of this collaboration, Vectorwise is able to unlock and exploit the full process-
ing power of today’s chip technology. Now, business applications can gain the full benefits
of Moore’s Law with consequent reductions in hardware costs, project risk and complexity.
The ability to handle unprecedented amounts of data on simple commodity hardware will
open up a raft of new possibilities for analytic applications that will deliver a competitive
edge to our partners and customers.
Vectorwise enables you to build Action Apps today to take action on Big Data.
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6. About Actian: Incite Action
Actian corporation (formerly Ingres corp.) is the first to unveil a cloud Action Platform
for building Action Apps. Action Apps are lightweight consumer-style applications that automate
business actions triggered by real-time changes in data. Actian products incite action at more
than 10,000 customers worldwide by driving their mission critical workloads and providing rapid
action insights to their data. Actian is headquartered in redwood city, california with offices
in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Melbourne.
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