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“Taken together, you get a simple but effective system that can scan large amounts of data at ridiculous speeds, crunch it in parallel and stay out of its own way while doing scratchwork.”

Tom Briggs, Full Table Scan, “Getting to Know DATAllegro, Part II,” May 2008.

   


A complete data warehouse appliance for
less than $500k

DATAllegro v3 offers a breakthrough alternative to traditional data warehouse solutions that allows companies to manage data warehouse costs without sacrificing performance. Large data warehouses present significant business challenges. With many data warehouse solutions, administrators perform complex operations to meet high data warehouse growth and increased demand for analytics.

DATAllegro v3 is a data warehouse appliance based on an open platform that surpasses proprietary, first-generation appliances in terms of sophistication, reliability and performance. At under $500,000 for 12 terabytes, DATAllegro SRA12 lets you implement a fully contained data warehouse without breaking your budget.

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DATAllegro SRA Data Warehouse Appliance

Overview


SINGLE RACK APPLIANCES AT UNDER $500K
The Single Rack Appliance (SRA) series offers a complete data warehouse in a single rack with high performance and full redundancy. The SRA12 offers 12 terabytes of capacity for under $500,000. The SRA product line is ideal for companies with low to medium data warehouse growth that need parallel query speeds to keep up with the pace of business. In addition to providing a complete data warehouse, the SRA12 is an ideal test and development environment or analytics sandbox. The appliance performs high-speed loading and is equipped with a high-speed specialized backup node. The SRA12 does not support upgrades beyond 12 terabytes. For companies with capacity beyond this, the multi-rack appliance (MRA) series scales from terabytes to petabytes at cost-effective prices.

FASTER QUERY TIMES THAN EVER BEFORE WITHIN YOUR ENVIRONMENT
DATAllegro v3 delivers significantly faster query times than traditional data warehouse technologies. With minimal tuning and optimization, your business will benefit from a 10x-100x improvement in query speeds. DATAllegro v3 provides the right blend of administration simplicity and the ability to support and optimize performance for complex mixed workloads. DATAllegro v3 adjusts to data growth, user concurrency and workload changes. With support for all types of ad-hoc queries, operational reports and high-speed concurrent loads, DATAllegro v3 provides a solution that solves critical business problems.

MAXIMIZE THE POWER OF YOUR HARDWARE
With DATAllegro RAIDW, servers or nodes execute queries in parallel independently of each other. A patent-pending parallel database design called Ultra Shared Nothing (USN)™ distributes data across all nodes in the appliance. USN limits data movement and ensures queries are resolved locally on each node for high performance. Multi-level partitioning further reduces the amount of data scanned during query processing. As a result, DATAllegro v3 can scan data at up to 10.5TB/minute.

PROCESS DATA AT QUAD CORE SPEED
DATAllegro’s Direct Data Streaming™ (DDS) technology streams data from EMC storage devices and processes the data using Intel® Xeon® Quad-Core processors. Each core in the processor reads data in parallel. The architecture allows DATAllegro to ride the multi-core processor wave for continual performance improvements.

EMC®, DELL™ AND CISCO® - POWERFUL PARTNERS PROVIDE ENTERPRISE-CLASS RELIABILITY
A data warehouse appliance is an integrated set of data storage, database, compute servers and O/S, each of which is pre-configured and pre-tuned for the rigors of data warehousing. DATAllegro v3 is a second-generation appliance that uses leading, standards-based technologies along with DATAllegro’s patent-pending software to provide enterprise-class reliability. EMC storage devices, standard Dell servers and Cisco InfiniBand interconnect combine together in DATAllegro's RAIDW™ (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Data Warehouses) architecture. With enterprise-class reliability and no single point of failure, DATAllegro v3 provides an architecture for high availability from SQL to storage.

LOAD DATA WHILE PERFORMING COMPLEX QUERIES
Automated workload management and system resource balancing enable you to load data at the same time that multiple users perform a range of query types—all without sacrificing performance. As your business grows, DATAllegro v3 provides options to support more users performing different types of queries.

REDUCE ADMINISTRATION COSTS
DATAllegro appliances are easy to install, deploy and maintain. Automated storage management replaces complex space allocation. Diagnostics detect and broadcast hardware issues. A management console provides a simple GUI interface and dashboard for tracking and resolving issues. Ultra-fast loading and high-speed backups reduce administration for even the largest data warehouses. DATAllegro supplies and supports all parts of the appliance, providing a single source for upgrades. Reduce your total cost of ownership by reducing administration complexity.

INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES TO RESPOND TO BUSINESS CHANGES AND CHALLENGES
DATAllegro is architected for change. Best-of-breed and standards-based devices allow the appliance to improve as technology advances. Automated workload management allows changes in user concurrency and workloads. Cost and complexity no longer cause business opportunities to be missed.

PROVEN SUCCESS
Telecommunication: Large telecommunication companies are using DATAllegro v3 for call data record (CDR) mediation as well as execution of complex queries over large data volumes.
Retail: Companies with retail customer information are using DATAllegro v3 for fine-grained analytical reporting.
Analytics: Analytics companies use DATAllegro to make informed, fact based decisions across all sectors.
Financial: Banking and financial companies and scoring engines use DATAllegro v3 for high-speed data transformation and aggregation

Key Features & Benefits

Standards-Based Technology
Provides enterprise-class reliability, high availability and keeps pace with advances in technology
Open Source Ingres™ Database
Lowers the total cost of ownership, while providing sophisticated and mature DBMS features
Massive Parallel Processing and Shared Nothing
Architecture
Provides 10x-100x performance gains over existing solutions for data warehouse queries
Simplicity and Flexibility
DATAllegro appliances make overall data warehouse administration easy while having the flexibility to respond to capacity and performance-tuning requirements
Mixed Workload Support
Enables enterprise reporting, OLAP and ad-hoc queries with concurrent data loading
Ultra-Fast Data Loading
Deliver data when needed with support for near real-time loads (up to 1TB per hour)
Workload Management
Supports high user concurrency and complex workloads
Pre-configured and Pre-tuned Appliance
Fast installation and simple maintenance lowers TCO and shortens time to value
Failure Alerts
SNMP alerts notify operators of any failure and can be configured to match business requirements
Management Console with Simple Administration
A simple GUI interface and dashboard enables administrators to manage appliance usage, diagnose and resolve system issues and monitor queries
Enterprise Level Redundancy and High Availability
Storage devices provide mirroring and hot-swappable drives; remove and replace components with no downtime; spare compute servers ensure queries continue to execute in the event of a hardware failure
SQL92, ODBC and JDBC
Open standard access for BI, ETL and other tools
Flexible Data Models
Supports normalized and de-normalized data models, star and snowflake schemas
Optional Indexing
Optional indexing provides even faster data access for single-row lookups against very large tables
Ultra-Fast Backup
DATAllegro MRA-B allows you to back up or restore terabytes of data at several terabytes per hour

HOW CUSTOMERS ARE USING DATALLEGRO APPLIANCES

  • As a low cost solution for high-performance enterprise data warehousing or data marts

  • As a high-performance component of a grid-enabled data warehouse

  • To offload applications from the enterprise data warehouse for high-speed aggregation and queries

  • To provide long-term data storage in multi-tier data warehouses or extend data warehouse capacity affordably

  • As a subject-oriented data mart or sandbox for new analytic applications

  • For data mart consolidation

  • As an enabling platform to improve the query performance of Business Objects™, MicroStrategy® and other BI tools

Product Spec


  • Data Servers: Dell™ 2950 Servers, 2 Intel® Quad-Core CPUs

  • DBMS: Ingres®

  • OS: 64bit Linux

  • Compute Node Work Storage: 6 SAS drives – 696GB capacity per node

  • Data Storage: EMC® 3x Clariion Series

  • Spares included for both data servers and data storage

  • Rack: Standard 42 Unit including switches and networking for InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and GigE

  • Backup Node: 15TB

Pricing Options


12TB, $499,000 includes complete data warehouse software, hardware, rack, networking and a 15TB capacity backup server

 

 

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