1. Architectural Options with IWA
Keshav Murthy
IBM Informix Development

2. • Data Warehouse query Performance without Perspiration
• Consistent query performance without tuning efforts.
• More questions, faster answers, better data driven decisions & business insights
• SKECHERS: Acceleration from 60x to 1400x – average acceleration of 450x
Motivation

3. Informix Database Server
Informix warehouse Accelerator
BI Applications
Step 1. Install, configure,
start Informix
Step 2. Install, configure,
start Accelerator
Step 3. Connect Studio to
Informix & add accelerator
Step 4. Design, validate,
Deploy Data mart
Step 5. Load data to
accelerator
Ready for Queries
IBM Smart Analytics
Studio
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Ready
Informix Ultimate Warehouse edition

4. 4
INTEL/IWA: Breakthrough
technologies for performance
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1. Large memory support
64-bit computing; System X with MAX5 supports up
to 6TB on a single SMP box; Up to 640GB on each
node of blade center. IWA: Compress large dataset
and keep it in memory; totally avoid IO.
7. Multi-core, multi-node environment
Nehalem has 8 cores and Westmere 10 cores. This trend is
expected to continue. IWA: Parallelize the scan, join, group
operations. Keep copies of dimensions to avoid cross-node
synchronization.
4. Virtualization Performance
Lower overhead: Core micro-architecture
enhancements, EPT, VPID, and End-to-End
HW assist IWA: Helps informix and IWA to
seemlessly run and perform in virtualized
environment.
5. Hyperthreading
2x logical processors; increases processor
throughput and overall performance of threaded
software. IWA: Does not exploit this since the
software is written to avoid pipeline flushing.
3. Frequency Partitioning
IWA: Enabler for the effective parallel access
of the compressed data for scanning.
Horizontal and Vertical Partition Elimination.
2. Large on-chip Cache
L1 cache 64KB per core, L2 cache is 256KB per
core and L3 cache is about 4-12 MB.
Additional Translation lookaside buffer (TLB).
IWA: New algorithms to avoid pipeline
flushing and cache hash tables in L2/L3 cache
6. Single Instruction Multiple Data
Specialized instructions for manipulating
128-bit data simultaneously. IWA:
Compresses the data into deep columnar
fashion optimized to exploit SIMD. Used in
parallel predicate evaluation in scans.

6. Store_sales data mart

7. Options Optimized Platforms
Source: BI Research, 2013

8. Use Case Application Example
Real-Time Monitoring & Analytics In-line fraud detection to reduce
financial losses caused bystolen credit
cards
Near-Real-TimeAnalytics Next best customer offer to the channel
to increase customer satisfaction &
reduce churn
Data Integration Hub Collect and manage all sales-related
detailed data (POS, web, supply chain)
for down stream analysis
Analytics Accelerator Offload & boost the performance of
selected financial analyses to increase
satisfaction/retention of key clients
New LOB Analytic Application Manage & monitor spot buying on
web advertising exchanges
Investigative Computing
Platform
Evaluate the effectiveness of
different social computing channels
Starting Point
Source: BI Research, 2013

9. • Ten different machine configurations
• Five ways to sync data
• Just combining the two options above

10. Informix Warehouse Accelerator
Deployment Options

11. Ingredients
1. Computer hardware
2. Informix
3. IWA
• This is typically part of a larger IT system and
workflow
• We’ll be focusing on options for each of these
components.

12. Ingredients: Computer Hardware
• Computer hardware
– Single SMP system
– Multiple SMP systems
– Single Cluster systems
– Multiple cluster systems

13. Ingredients: Computer Hardware
• Single SMP system
– Informix and IWA running on the same system
– Should be a high-memory system.
• IBM System X with MAX5 can go up to 3TB with DIMMs
up to 16GB.
• http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/data/flash/systemx/hardware/ddr3//
– The machine has to be based on Intel Xeon with SSE
– Informix can be running OLTP or OLAP workload
– Limit the number of CPU VPs and the number of
cores for IWA
– Set the SHMTOTAL and memory for IWA

14. Ingredients: Computer Hardware
• Multiple SMP systems
– Informix and IWA running on the separate systems
– IWA machine should be an Intel Xeon based
processor with high-memory.
– Informix machine can be:
• Linux on Intel
• Linux or AIX on Power
• Solaris on Intel or Sparc
• HP/UX on Itanium
– Data is transferred from Informix instance to IWA.

15. Ingredients: Computer Hardware
• Computer hardware
– Single SMP system
– Multiple SMP systems
– Single Cluster systems
– Multiple cluster systems
Let’s discuss Informix and IWA on cluster systems.
i.e., Informix MACH11
IWA on a multi-node cluster.

16. 16
Informix Database Server
Informix warehouse Accelerator
BI Applications
Step 1. Install, configure,
start Informix
Step 2. Install, configure,
start Accelerator
Step 3. Connect Studio to
Informix & add accelerator
Step 4. Design, validate,
Deploy Data mart
Step 5. Load data to
accelerator
Ready for Queries
IBM Smart Analytics
Studio
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Ready
Informix Warehouse Accelerator – In 11.70.FC4

17. Design DM by workload
analysis or manually
Deployed datamart
Datamart Deleted
Datamart in USE
Datamart Disabled
Partition based refresh
Trickle feed refresh
Deploy
Load
Drop
Disable
Full Load/
Enable
Drop
Complete view of Data mart state transitions.

18. Background
• Prior to 11.70.FC5, adding accelerator, create, deploy, load, enable,
disable datamart, accelerating queries – are all operations officially
supported only on Standard server or Primary node of MACH11/HA
environment.
• We estimate about 50% of Informix customers use HDR secondary
servers and growing number of customers use MACH11 (SDS
secondary) configurations and RSS nodes. MACH11 is the Informix
scale out solution.
• IWA itself supports a scale out solution (on a cluster) starting with
11.70.FC4.
• Reasons to support MACH11 and IWA together.
– This feature will enable partitioning a cluster or HA group between OLTP and
BI workload.
– This feature will give help to off-load the expensive LOAD functionality to
secondary servers
– We have customers now requesting support for HDR secondary to IWA

19. 19
Informix Primary
Informix warehouse Accelerator
BI Applications
Step 1. Install, configure,
start Informix
Step 2. Install, configure,
start Accelerator
Step 3. Connect Studio to
Informix & add accelerator
Step 4. Design, validate,
Deploy Data mart from
Primary, SDS, HDR, RSS
Step 5. Add IWA to sqlhosts
Load data to
Accelerator from any node.
Ready for Queries
IBM Smart Analytics
Studio
Step 1
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Ready
Informix Warehouse Accelerator – 11.70.FC5. MACH11 SupportInformix Warehouse Accelerator – 11.70.FC5. MACH11 Support
Informix
SDS1
Informix
SDS2
Informix
HDR
Secondary
Informix
RSS
Step 2

20. 1. Machine Summary
1. Informix can be in any of the following
2. IWA can be running in any of the following
• Single SMP system
• Multiple SMP systems
• Single Cluster systems
• Multiple cluster systems
3. You can mix and match for scale-out (performance), high
availability, application evolution, migration and any number
of reasons.

21. 1. Hardware Configuration
• All in one – single system – All on Linux on Intel
• Multiple systems
• Homogeneous systems – Linux on Intel
• Heterogeneous systems
• Informix on Linux on Intel/Power, AIX on Power, Solaris
on Intel/Sparc
• IWA Linux on Intel
• Informix on Cluster and IWA on single node
• Informix on single system and IWA on cluster
• Informix on cluster and IWA on cluster
• Informix on combination of Cluster and smp system; IWA on
cluster or smp system

22. 1. Informix Topology
• Informix single node.
• Informix Primary+SDS
• Informix Primary + HDR + RSS
• Informix Primary +SDS + RSS
• Informix Flexible grid
1. IWA Topology
• Single node
• Multiple single node systems
• Single cluster
• Multiple clusters
• combo of single/multi

23. • Features
• Informix Warehousing
• IWA Acceleration
• Multiple data marts with same definition
• MACH11 support
• Heterogeneous platform support
• Data sync – refresh mart
• Data sync – trickle feed
• Data mart – External table
• Data mart Timeseries acceleration

24. Informix Database Server
BI Applications
Step 1. Create the Sales-Mart
and load it. Sales is the fact
table -- range partitioned.
Step 2. Load jobs
update the fact table “sales”
Only updates existing partition
Step 3. Identify the partition,
execute dropPartMart().
Step 4. for same partition,
execute loadPartMart().
Ready for Queries
IBM Smart Analytics
Studio or stored
procedures or
command line tool
Step 1
Step 4
Step 2
Step 3
Ready
Case 1: Partition refresh: Updates to existing Partitions
Sales-Mart
sales
customer
stores
IWA
OLTP Apps
partitioned fact table
SQL Script: call
Stored procedure
Modified partition
INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE

25. Informix Database Server
BI Applications
Step 1. Create the Sales-Mart
and load it. Sales is the fact
table -- range partitioned.
Need to move the Time
window to next range.
ep 2. DETACH operation
Execute dropPartMart()
DETACH the partition
ep 3. ATTACH operation
ATTACH the partition
Execute loadPartMart()
Ready for Queries
IBM Smart Analytics
Studio or stored
procedures or
command line tool
Step 1
Step 3Step 2
Ready
Case 2: Partition refresh: Time Cyclic data management
Sales-Mart
sales
customer
stores
IWA
OLTP Apps
partitioned fact table
Move the window.

26. Design DM by
workload analysis or
manually
Deployed datamart
Datamart
DeletedDatamart in USE
Datamart Disabled
Partition based refresh
Trickle feed refresh
Deploy
Load
Drop
Disable
Enable Drop

27. Data Refresh: RefreshMart Implementation :
new stored procedure :
ifx_refreshMart(
'accelerator_name',
'data_mart_name',
'locking_mode',
NULL);
locking_mode is optional : can be NULL
4th
parameter : not used as of now
if used while new functionality “trickleFeed” is active :
ifx_refreshMart() will not refresh fact tables for which trickleFeed is active.

28. Data Refresh: RefreshMart :
granularity based on table partitions
data mart remains available for query acceleration
single call of stored procedure for ease of use
control of execution remains with administrator
handles all data changes, including fragment operations
data consistency via lock mode parameter
prerequisite :
sysadmin database accessible for administrator

29. Informix Database Server
Step 1. Create the Sales-Mart
and load it. Sales is the fact
Table, customer and stores
Dimension tables.
Step 2 Setup tricklefeed by
calling ifx_setupTrickleFeed
p 3. Let application roll.
the inserts on fact and
dates on any dimensions.
ep 4. As the applications
ns, the reports see new
ta updated on IWA
IBM Smart Analytics
Studio or stored
procedures or
command line tool
Step 1
Step 3
Step 2
Data Refresh: Scenario for Real-time trickle feed.
Sales-Mart
sales
customer
stores
IWA
OLTP Apps
fact table
Setup the trickle
feed
Run the application
Step 4
Reports & BI Apps

30. Data Refresh: Trickle feed (cont.)
insert into
fact_table ...
fact table
data row trigger
dimension table1
data row
accelerator
data mart
data row
Dbscheduler
task
ifx_loadPartMart()
ifx_refeshMart()
data row
dimension table2
data row

31. User interface:
ifx_setupTrickleFeed( 'accelerator_name', 'data_mart_name', buffertime)
accelerator_name
The name of the accelerator that contains the data mart.
data_mart_name
The name of the data mart.
buffertime
An integer that represents the time interval between refreshes and
whether dimension tables are refreshed.
Examples:
execute procedure ifx_setupTrickleFeed('salesacc', ‘partsmart', 60);
execute procedure ifx_setupTrickleFeed('salesacc', 'carmart', -300);
Trickle feed (cont.)

32. Deep dive into interval and
rolling window table partitioning in IBM Informix
Keshava Murthy IBM rkeshav@us.ibm.com

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40. ar·chi·tec·ture
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Noun
• The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
• The style of a building with regard to a specific period,
place, or culture.
op·tion
Noun
A benefit in the form of an option given by a company to an employee to
buy stock in the company at a discount or at a stated fixed price.
Surely, were neither discussing buildings or stock options.

41. A system architecture or systems architecture is the
conceptual model that defines the structure,
behavior, and more views of a system.
An architecture description is a formal description
and representation of a system, organized in a way
that supports reasoning about the structures of the
system, which comprise system components, the
externally visible properties of those components,
the relationships (e.g. the behavior) between them,
and provides a plan from which products can be
procured, and systems developed, that will work
together to implement the overall system.

42. A system architecture or systems architecture is the
conceptual model that defines the structure,
behavior, and more views of a system.
An architecture description is a formal description
and representation of a system, organized in a way
that supports reasoning about the structures of the
system, which comprise system components, the
externally visible properties of those components,
the relationships (e.g. the behavior) between them,
and provides a plan from which products can be
procured, and systems developed, that will work
together to implement the overall system.