The integrated product will allow users to deploy SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP's BI-oriented analytical applications on the HP Neoview platform, which provides for sorting, managing and accessing massive amounts of database information via parallel processing and shared-nothing architecture.
Additionally, the early shared-nothing architectures (see box, Anatomy of a scalable cluster) of parallel servers meant that any time new processing resources were added, the database had to be unloaded and re-partitioned across server disks.
How GRIDSCALE Works Unlike traditional clustering, which relies on multiple databases tied to shared storage, GRIDSCALE employs a shared-nothing architecture with a dynamic number of database servers for continuous availability.
Bizgres MPP is the only enterprise-class distribution of PostgreSQL to combine parallel processing with fault tolerance in a shared-nothing architecture optimized for BI.
The NUMA-Q systems were selected, in part, because the NUMA architecture was so well suited to the shared-nothing architecture of the company's existing DB2 database.
The main technical features of the system are: -- MPP, shared-nothing architecture -- `Load and go' analysis of data, with minimal structuring and pre-processing -- Database-in-memory software technology for maximum query performance -- Every query operation is fully parallelized, utilizing all available resources automatically -- Load operations are also in parallel, and scalable -- Externally the system appears as a standard RDBMS using ANSI SQL through ODBC -- Minimum configuration is 14 AMD K-6 processors, each with 512MB SDRAM (total 7GB), plus 108GB of disk array.
The Hitachi THOR Database System consists of the THOR SQL objectManager, an optimizing RDBMS engine that presents a single logical image of the database, and the THOR MPP Data Server, a massively parallel hardware platform with a shared-nothing architecture.
