Drive More Value with High Performance Cloud Data Warehousing

IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY
ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
John Santaferraro
Research Director
EMA
Drive More Value with
High Performance Cloud Data Warehousing
Emma McGrattan
SVP of Engineering
Actian

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Featured Speakers
John Santaferraro, Research Director, EMA
John is the research director for analytics, business intelligence, and data management at
EMA. He has 23 years of experience in data and analytics, from startups to executive
positions at Fortune 50 companies. His deep understanding of the industry comes from
years of leadership in implementation, product and marketing organizations, along with
multiple big data imagineering efforts for finance, communications, retail, manufacturing,
healthcare, events, oil and gas, and utilities.
Emma McGrattan, SVP of Engineering, Actian
As SVP of Engineering at Actian, Emma leads research and development for Actian’s
Hybrid Data Analytics Portfolio. A recognized authority in DBMS and Big Data
technologies, Emma is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences. Emma has
recently celebrated over 25 years in Ingres and Actian Engineering.

Agenda
• The State of Cloud Data Warehousing
• What Leading Companies Want in a Cloud Data Warehouse
• Redefining High Performance Cloud Data Warehousing
• Calculating the Value of High Performance
• Introducing Actian Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse
• Question and Answer

The State of Cloud Data Warehousing

Analytics Create a Competitive Advantage

Data Science Provides Differentiation

The Cloud is a Strategic Weapon
2X
EXPANDING IMPORTANCE
Over 4 of every 10 respondents
indicated that cloud was essential to
their business strategies in 2018, which
represents nearly double that same
category from 2016.
87%
MOVING TO THE CLOUD
Nearly 9 of every 10 respondents
in the 2018 EMA Big Data study
indicated that they were adopting
cloud implementation strategies.

High Performance Cloud Data Warehousing Speeds
Value Creation
Data
Warehousing
in the Cloud
Built for
Cloud Data
Warehousing
High
Performance
Cloud Data
Warehousing

What Leading Companies Want
in a Cloud Data Warehouse

CDW Basic Requirements
Cloud
DW
Simplicity

Cloud
DW
Simplicity
Elasticity

Cloud
DW
Simplicity
Elasticity
Productivity

Cloud
DW
Simplicity
Elasticity
Productivity
Value Creation

Cloud
DW
Simplicity
Elasticity
Productivity
Value Creation
COST
CONTAINMENT

Redefining High Performance
Cloud Data Warehousing

Balanced Performance
Loading
Indexing
Updating
Analyzing

Scalable Performance
Modern Performance
Near Linear
Traditional Performance
Deterioration
PerformancePerNode
Volume of Data
PerformancePerNode
Volume of Data

Query Performance
Query
Complexity
Analytic
Complexity
Concurrent
Queries
High Performance Cloud Data Warehouse

Hybrid Performance
Advantages of Hybrid Performance
• Total High Performance
• Shared Resources
• Shared Services
• Interoperability
• Common Manageability
• Security
• Performance
• Optimization

Elastic Performance
Server and Storage Elasticity
The separation of server and storage enables business-specific
performance adjustments, precise fit of resources to
requirements, and alignment of cost with usage.

Calculating the Value of
High Performance

Calculating the Value of High Performance: COST
Current System
• 8 nodes
High Performance System
• 2 nodes
Impending
Cost Increase
75%
Cost Decrease

Calculating the Value of High Performance:
SPEED
Current System
• 8 nodes
• 8 nodes
Impending
Cost Increase
4X Speed
Increase

ITERATION
Current System
• 8 nodes
• 8 nodes
Impending
Cost Increase
4X Speed
Increase

INNOVATION
Current System
• 8 nodes
• 2 nodes
Impending
Cost Increase
75% Reinvestment
in Innovation

Introducing Actian Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse

Actian at a Glance
Our mission
 To deliver hybrid data management, data integration and analytics solutions
to power the next shift in computing around “hybrid data”
We know data
 30+ year pedigree in Data Management, Integration and Analytics On-
premises and in the cloud
We innovate
 Infused more than 20 patents into modern analytics solutions. World’s
fastest scale-out analytics, world’s first native hybrid transactional and
analytics database, industry’s first hybrid data integration offering and
more…
We are global
 ~300 employees, offices in 15+ Countries, 7x24 multinational support,
Enterprise and OEM business model support
Reach and resources of a $20B worldwide leader
 Jointly acquired by HCL Technologies & Sumeru Equity Partners in July
2018.

Introducing Actian Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse
Delivered as a Managed Service
DBA
Support
Best
Practices Health
Checks
Security
Let the Actian experts manage the environment
while you focus on transforming your business.
On a Pay As You Go Model
With Actian FlexPath™ technology
shut down the compute resources
when not required and pay for only
what you use.
High Performance
Cloud Data Warehouse
The world’s fastest
analytics solution architected for
multi-cloud deployment
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Getting to Production with Avalanche is as easy as 1, 2, 3…
2
Load Your Data
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Create an Avalanche Cluster
…in as little as 20 minutesFrom start to insight…
3
Start Analyzing Your Data

Step 1 – Create an Avalanche Cluster
• Enter the following
 Name of cluster
 Select Location
 Choose Cluster Size
 Whitelist IP
• Click ‘Create Cluster’
 100’s of steps going on behind the scenes
• Voila! Your Production Quality
Cluster is ready for use!
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Step 2 – Load Your Data
• Various ways to ingest data
 Parallel loads
 ETL data feed
 Streaming (e.g. Kafka)
• Granularity
 Batch; Mini, Micro
 Streaming
 CDC
• Load from AWS/S3
 Simple SQL access via External Tables
 INSERT INTO table FROM table_external
• ETL & ELT
 Move ETL endpoints to Avalanche
 Preserve investment in ETL & ELT jobs

Step 3 – Start Analyzing Your Data
• Analytics / Data Science
 ODBC/JDBC connection
 Preserve development investment
 End users experience no difference
• Leveraging Spark & Scala
 Native Spark Connectivity
• Various ways to egress data
 Parallel unloads
 ETL data pulls
 Analytic tools
Business Users
Data Scientists & Engineers

Loads 5-30x Faster
Transformational Value
Simply load your data and start your analysis
No database administration or management required
No indexing
No cubes or materialized views
Real-time updates with no performance impact
Dashboards
Reports
Ad-hoc Queries
Data Science and Engineering
Actian Avalanche changes the economics of insights
10-1000x faster than alternative cloud data warehouses
and on-premises alternatives
Actian Avalanche accelerates the digital transformation process

The Avalanche
Difference
Performance
at Scale
Hybrid by Design
Spectacular Operational
Savings
Fully Managed with
Pre-built
Connectors

The Avalanche Difference
 Delivers the power and performance of established data warehouses, at
cloud scale and at previously unachievable cloud economics
 Patented columnar technology delivers unrivaled real-time insights with
zero performance penalty for updates
 Architected from the ground up to deliver record breaking data
processing rates in the cloud
 Performance advantage grows with data volume, query complexity and
user concurrency
 Over 9X superior price-performance advantage over previous
generations of cloud data warehouses
Performance
at Scale

 Address all your hybrid data needs
 Analyze your data where it lives: on-premise, in public clouds or a
combination of the two
 Your experience with on-premise and Avalanche is the same – utilizes same
skills, integration, people etc.
 No Cloud Lock-in! Multi-cloud support starting with AWS, quickly followed by
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
 Load and go exchange between query workloads
 Address data sovereignty, GDPR compliance and remote location computing
needs effortlessly
Hybrid
by Design

Fully Managed
with Pre-built
Connectors
 Let the experts at Actian manage the environment while you
focus on growing your business.
 Avalanche makes accessing your data sources easy as pie with support for
your favorite SaaS apps including Salesforce, NetSuite, ServiceNow &
Workday
 Provides fully customizable and sophisticated hybrid data integration
capabilities that can scale and perform in the most demanding
environments.

 Avalanche FlexPath™ technology ensures you only pay for the
compute resources you need, when you need them.
Spectacular
Operational
Savings
$0
$50,000
$100,000
$150,000
$200,000
$250,000
$300,000
$350,000
$400,000
$450,000
50 100 200 500 1000
Totalworkloadcost
Number of TPC-H Workloads Executed
Cost Comparison (20 User Example)
Avalanche Redshift Snowflake
 Avalanche is unbeatable on both price and performance
Measured using
typical TPC-H
Workload at 10TB
9XPrice-Performance
Advantage

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