Deliver faster insight – reduce query response times to seconds Analyze more data faster – explore billions of rows of data in seconds More concurrent users – enable more concurrent BI users to explore more data

1. Turbocharge Analytics for Free with
Actian Analytics Platform - Express 2.0
A Technical Overview of Actian Express
Jim Hare – Senior Director, Product Marketing
Todd Untrecht – Senior Director, Product Management
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2. Today’s Key BI Challenge: Slow Query Performance
• How to deliver real-time analytics for low latency decision making
• Users waiting hours for BI queries to run impacting productivity
Reality: Slow Performance Impacts Productivity and Curiosity
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3. Ultrafast Query Performance = Analytics at the
Speed of Thought
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4. Creating Transformational Value from Big Data
Actian Accelerates The Entire Big Data Analytics Value Chain
Data Explosion Transformational Value
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Actian Analytics PlatformTM
?
Customer
Delight
Competitive
Advantage
World-Class Risk
Management
Disruptive New
Business Models
Time-Sensitive
Analytics
Connect Analyze Act
Discovery
Analytics
Low Latency
Discovery Accuracy

5. Designed for Extreme Performance, Scale, and Agility
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Optimize and Parallelize
Everything – SQL to CPU
Move Analytic Processing to
Where the Data Lives
Extreme Agility - Rapid Deployment
and Constant Innovation
Extreme Performance at Any Scale
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6. Actian Analytics Platform Edition Comparison
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Extreme
Performance
Edition
Hadoop
SQL
Edition
Express
Edition
Data Science Workbench   
Library of 1500+ Analytics Functions   
Parallelized Data Flow Engine   
200+ Data Connectors  
High Performance Data Integration Engine  
Industrialized SQL in Hadoop Database 
High Speed Database Loader   
Vector-based Columnar Database  
Massive Parallel Columnar Database 
On Demand Integration Modules 
Pricing Options Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Free for up to
250GB of data

7. Actian Analytics Platform – Express Edition
Free community version providing a fast and simple way to improve BI
analytic performance
Core Capabilities
■ Analytics Workbench – quickly build visual
workflows to prepare, transform, and analyze data
■ Vector-based Columnar Database – run
complex queries against billions of records in secs
■ Management Console – easily monitor and
manage your analytics data
Key Benefits
■ Deliver faster insight – reduce query response
times to seconds
■ Analyze more data faster – explore billions of
rows of data in seconds
■ More concurrent users – enable more
concurrent BI users to explore more data
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Usage Restrictions
■ Store up to 250Gb of raw data
■ Up to 5 concurrent sessions active in DB
■ Execute analytic workflows on up to 10
nodes in a cluster
■ Not re-distributable in any way to a third-party

8. Actian Analytics Platform - Express
Turbocharge BI Performance
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Analytics Libraries & Blueprints
Ultrafast Vector-based
Columnar Analytics
Database
Connectivity to Any Data
Actian Analytics Platform - Express
Enterprise Data
Machine Data
Social Data
BI Users
Visualization Tools
SQL Tools
Data Warehouse
Visual Data and Analytic Workbench
SaaS Data
High Performance, Data
Flow Engine
Applications

9. Actian DataFlow – Analytics Workbench
Visual Data Science & Analytics Workflows
• Drag/drop interface with 100’s of data preparation and analytic functions
• Connect, blend, & enrich data and perform discovery & data science
• Build and deploy reusable analytic workflows – without coding
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10. Actian DataFlow - Engine
Data Preparation & Analytics Processing Engine
+ - ≠ ☼ ≡ ∞ Δ Σ √ ≈ Σ = ? # ~ ‰
Read Write Prepare Analyze Analyze Read Write
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Optimizer
Actian DataPrep
LEADER
On-Node Processing
Select from pre-configured,
pre-designed
workflows or functions
Use drag and drop
operators or analytic
functions without
programming
High Performance, Scale-out
distribution of
workloads and data to all
AAP Engines
Optimize all workloads for
maximum use of CPU and
nodes
Execute transformation,
Data prep & analytic
processing across cores
on 1 server or a
cluster/grid of servers
Also can run natively on
Hadoop cluster
accelerating data prep
and enabling analytical
processing

11. Actian Analytics Database - Vector
High Velocity, Rapid Deployment Analytics Database
VECTOR
PROCESSING
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Actian Vector
Optimizer
SINGLE NODE
CORE CORE
CORE CORE
CORE CORE
CORE CORE
4 POINTS OF HIGH
PERFORMANCE:
Vector Processing
On Chip Caching
Multi-Core Parallelism
SQL Optimization
NEXT GENERATION
Prepare any data with
DATABASE
Actian DataFlow
TECHNOLOGY:
Columnar
Compressed
Storage Indexes
Single Instruction
Multiple Data
Time / Cycles to Process
ON CHIP CACHING
Data Processed
DISK
RAM
CHIP
40-400MB 2-3GB 10GB
2-20 150-250 Millions
Process data on chip – not in RAM
MULTI-CORE
PARALLELISM
…
Maximal system resource
utilization

12. Actian Vector Benchmark Results - TPC-H 1TB
World’s Fastest Single Server Analytic Database
0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000
QphH (excluding discounts)
Vector 445,529
Vector 436,788
SQL Server 219,888
Oracle 209,534
Oracle 201,487
SQL Server 173,962
Sybase IQ 164,747
Oracle 140,181
SQL Server 134,117
June ‘12
May ‘11
Aug ‘11
June ‘11
Sept ‘11
Apr ‘11
Dec ‘10
Apr ‘10
Dec ‘11
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Hardware Cost
$57,146
$85,621
$460,869
$2,402,706
$753,392
$278,527
$1,229,968
$1,249,967
$258,880
Fastest TPC-H QphH@1TB Benchmark (non-clustered)
Source: www.tpc.org / November 20, 2014

13. Actian Director: Database Management Console
Simple, Easy to Use Monitoring Interface
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14. Other Information
How do Express users obtain technical support?
■ Express users can ask questions and receive help for free
through the Actian Community Support website:
http://supportservices.actian.com/community
What happens if I exceed the 250GB data storage limit?
■ The Express product will stop working. You can send an email to
express@actian.com to purchase additional capacity or upgrade
to the full version of the Actian Analytics Platform
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15. Confidential 15 © 2014 Actian Corporation
Extreme
Performance
Edition
Hadoop
SQL
Edition
Express
Edition
Express
Hadoop SQL
Edition
Data Science Workbench    
Library of 1500+ Analytics Functions    
Parallelized Data Flow Engine    
200+ Data Connectors  
High Performance Data Integration
Engine
 
Industrialized SQL in Hadoop
Database
 
High Speed Database Loader    
Vector-based Columnar Database  
Massive Parallel Columnar Database 
On Demand Integration Modules 
Pricing Options Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Capacity,
Subscription,
Right to Deploy
Free for up to
250GB of data
Free for up to
500GB of data
Actian Analytics Platform Edition Comparison

16. Get started today! Download and use Actian
Express for Free!
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www.actian.com/express

17. Thank You
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facebook.com/actiancorp
@actiancorp
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