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A solution using Dell APEX Private Cloud and Dell APEX Data Storage Services Block generated data-driven insights earlier than Amazon EC2 c6i.16xlarge instances with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage A solution using Dell APEX Private Cloud and Dell APEX Data Storage Services Block generated data-driven insights earlier than Amazon EC2 c6i.16xlarge instances with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage

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A solution using Dell APEX Private Cloud and Dell APEX
Data Storage Services Block generated data-driven insights
earlier than Amazon EC2 c6i.16xlarge instances with
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage
A Dell APEX solution outperformed comparable
Amazon EC2 instances on a decision support workload
Read and write throughput
MB/s | Higher is better
Dell APEX Solution Amazon EC2 solution
2,785
Read
Write
3,477
1,370
1,634
24.8% greater read throughput
19.2% greater write throughput
13.6% less time to
complete a set of
decision support queries
on a 4TB dataset
3:12
Time (h:mm) | Lower is better
3:43
Dell APEX
Solution
Amazon
EC2 solution
The Dell APEX solution
also delivered greater read
and write throughput while
running the set of queries.
Testing involved a decision support system (DSS) big data
workload in two environments whose VMs had the same
vCPU, memory, and storage drive capacity:
• An eight-node Hadoop cluster running on Dell
APEX Private Cloud General Purpose instances
• An eight-node Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2
c6i.16xlarge instances
Testing used Hadoop because it is a popular workload to
facilitate DSS solutions. For complete configuration details,
read the complete report.
The Dell APEX solution took 13.6 percent less time
to complete the workload than the Amazon EC2
c6i.16xlarge solution. Higher-performing systems
provide insight faster, and dedicated systems can provide
predictable performance and a consistent experience. We
also investigated pricing and found that the Dell APEX
solution offers a simplified approach.
See configuration details and more at https://facts.pt/XJvpK9D

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