1. Real-world Vectorwise Architecture
Mark Van de Wiel
Director Product Management, Vectorwise
Thursday, November 01, 2012
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2. Agenda
Retail: Sheetz
Finance: The Rohatyn Group
Social media: Badoo
Advertising: Thomson Reuters
Machine-generated data: Xerox
Government: Irish Revenue Commissioners
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3. Retail: Sheetz
Company and business case
Convenience store and sandwich shop – East Coast US
Traditional BI and reporting application
Looking to expand into inventory management optimizations
Why Vectorwise
Incredibly fast performance
Extremely affordable
Migrating applications off Teradata EDW to avoid extending the system
Implementation
Pentaho for data loading and dashboards
Actian professional services implementation
Won “vendor-of-the-year” award
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4. “Vectorwise helps to optimize costs, maintain high quality
and a positive customer service”
Jarrid Magalich, Technical Services Manager at Sheetz
http://www.actian.com/webinars/ultra-fast-data-analytics
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5. Finance: The Rohatyn Group
Company and use case
Hedge fund focused on emerging markets
Risk management
Position analysis to make investment decisions
Not just current but also historical positions
Too much data to fit in-memory, yet extremely fast performance required
Why Vectorwise
In-memory performance without memory limitation
Technical implementation
Wide table with all dimensions denormalized
Home-grown JDBC-based application
Dual-active high availability
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6. “For the past 20 years, I’ve been searching for the killer
database that would fulfill our most intense data
processing needs and with the discovery of Vectorwise,
that search is now over – this database technology is in
a class of its own. Right out of the box, Vectorwise lets
us effortlessly plow through millions and millions of
rows of data…The Ingres and Vectorwise leaders and
technologists have performed a miracle here.”
Warren S. Master, CTO, The Rohatyn Group, New York
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7. Social media: Badoo
Company and use case
Social media – dating
Built on top of Facebook
Growing very rapidly
Clickstream stored in Hadoop, interactive analysis in Vectorwise
Why Vectorwise
Fast performance
No need to spend time design summaries
Implementation
Custom scripts on top of Pentaho Data Integration jobs to load data
Pentaho dashboards for queries and analysis
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8. “Vectorwise’s performance will make our company more
agile and strengthen our competitive advantage”
Ian Broadhead, BI Lead at Badoo
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9. Advertising: Thomson Reuters
Company and use case
World’s largest international news agency
Predictive analytics for advertising rates
Based on continuous news feeds
Why Vectorwise
Fast performance during continuous loads
High concurrency
Implementation
Custom PHP for iOS
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10. Machine-generated Data: Xerox
Company and use case
“The document company”
Copiers generate lots of diagnostics data
Analyze data to
Optimize supply chain for parts
Improve customer service by performing preventive maintenance
Why Vectorwise
Ease of use to get fast performance
Versus Oracle (too slow, too much tuning) and Greenplum (too complex)
Implementation
Pervasive ETL
Yellowfin BI for reporting and analytics
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11. Government: Irish Revenue Commissioners
Organization and use case
Tax collection and customs law department
More than 200 types of declarations
Over 2.2 million individuals and 750,000 businesses
Fraud detection and prevention
Why Vectorwise
Fast performance without special tuning
Implementation
Multiple TBs of data
Implementation by Accenture
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12. “In our own benchmarks and internal testing, we soon
realized just how fast Vectorwise was, and as data sets
get bigger, that performance differential becomes even
more significant”
Maureen Byrne, Business Intelligence Manager, Revenue
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13. Agenda
Retail: Sheetz
Finance: The Rohatyn Group
Social media: Badoo
Advertising: Thomson Reuters
Machine-generated data: Xerox
Government: Irish Revenue Commissioners
More use cases at:
http://www.actian.com/images/white_papers/Actian_VW_Customer_Brochure.pdf
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