Map-D is a super-fast SQL-enabled columnar database built into GPU memory that allows for real-time analytics and interactive visualization of big data. It is optimized to take advantage of GPU memory bandwidth and computational power. Map-D can scan data at over 2TB/second per node and handle queries of over 1 billion records within milliseconds by leveraging the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs. This allows for truly interactive analysis of large datasets.

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www.map-d.com
@datarefined Todd Mostak Ι
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1830 Sansome St.
San Francisco, CA 94104
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@datarefined

2. map-D? super-fast database
built into GPU memory
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world’s fastest
real-time big data analytics
interactive visualization
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3. The importance of interactivity
People have struggled for a long time to build interactive
visualizations of big data that can deliver insight
Interactivity means:
• Hypothesis testing can occur at “speed of thought”
How Interactive is interactive enough?
• According to a study by Jeffrey Heer and Zhicheng Liu, “an injected
delay of half a second per operation adversely affects user
performance in exploratory data analysis.”
• Some types of latency are more detrimental than others:
• For example, linking and brushing more sensitive than zooming

4. Strategies for interactivity
• Sampling:
• Ex. BlinkDB
• Issues:
• Need statistically robust method for sampling
• Sampling can miss “long-tail” phenomena
• Pre-computation
• Ex. ImMems (datacubing)
• Issues:
• Only can show what curator thought was relevant
• Can only store a certain number of binned attributes
• Must be curated!

5. The Arrival of In-Memory Systems
• Traditional RDBMS used to be too slow to serve as a back-end
for interactive visualizations.
• Queries of over a billion records could take minutes if not
hours
• But in-memory systems can execute such queries in a fraction
of the time.
• Both full DBMS and “pseudo”-DBMS solutions
• But still often too slow

6. Enter Map-D

7. the technology

8. Core Innovation
SQL-enabled column store database built into the memory
architecture on GPUs and CPUs
Code developed from scratch to take advantage of:
• Memory and computational bandwidth of multiple GPUs
• Heterogeneous architectures (CPUs and GPUs)
• Fast RDMA between GPUs on different nodes
• GPU Graphics pipeline
Double-level buffer pool across GPU and CPU memory
Shared scans – multiple queries of the same data can share
memory bandwidth
System can scan data at 2TB/sec per node, with 10TB/sec per
node logical throughput with shared scans

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10. The
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11. Shared Nothing Processing
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12. the product

13. Complex
AnalyKcs
Image
processing
VisualizaKon
GPU
in-­‐memory
SQL
database
OpenGL
H.264/VP8
streaming
GPU
pipeline
Machine
learning
Graph
analyKcs
License
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of
GPUs
Mobile/server
versions
Scale
to
cluster
of
GPU
nodes
SQL
compiler
Shared
scans
User
defined
funcKons
Hybrid
GPU/CPU
execuKon
OpenCL
and
CUDA
Product GPU
powered
end-­‐to-­‐end
big
data
analyKcs
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visualizaKon
plaYorm

14. Map-D code
Single GPU
12GB memory
Map-D code
integrated into
GPU memory
Single CPU
768GB memory
Map-D code
integrated into
CPU memory
NVIDIA TEGRA
Mobile chip
4GB memory
Map-D code
integrated into
chip memory
8 cards = 4U box
4 sockets = 4U box
Map-D code
runs on GPU +
CPU memory
36U rack:
~400GB GPU
~12TB CPU
Mobile Map-D running
small datasets
Native App
Web-based
service
Map-D hardware architecture
Large Data Big Data
Small Data
Next Gen Flash
40TB
100GB/s

15. map-D
www.map-d.com
@datarefined
info@map-d.com