This document discusses how IBM Power Systems and EnterpriseDB (EDB) Postgres can help organizations reduce database costs and free up funds for innovation. It notes that many organizations spend the majority of their IT budgets on basic maintenance rather than innovation. Adopting the open source EDB Postgres database, which provides enterprise-grade capabilities, on IBM Power Systems servers can significantly reduce database costs compared to proprietary solutions. The Power Systems platform is optimized to run EDB Postgres with high performance and price efficiency. This allows organizations to accomplish more with existing budgets and pursue new technologies.
EDB Postgres Ark is a database-as-a-service framework for public, private, and hybrid clouds that automates infrastructure provisioning and de-provisioning as well
as database installation and configuration, allowing you to deploy and begin managing databases within minutes.
IBM eX5 Workload Optimized x86 ServersCliff Kinard
Learn about how these IBM eX5 servers are purposely built for workloads. This presentation shows how IBM's pre-configured solutions can reduce deployment time from months to weeks while saving clients over $100,000 in installation and setup costs.
Flash is Changing Business
In business timing is everything. We all know the phrase "Time is Money", right? This is especially true when it comes to business-critical applications. Any delays in delivering data and processing could result in lost customers, lost revenue and lost trust.
thinkASG's new eBook "Our Hero Flash" discusses these challenges and looks at how Flash is changing business as we know it today. Read about how Flash is providing a platform for innovation and making a huge impact on the way healthcare organizations are engaging with their patients. Customer service oriented companies can better connect with their customers much faster than before and decrease time needed to help them.
EDB Postgres Backup and Recovery allows DBAs to easily manage backup and recovery tasks for multiple databases from a centralized location making custom scripts obsolete.
Back up deduplicated data in less time with the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appli...Principled Technologies
Backing up data is a key component in data protection. However, long backup windows can cause headaches for IT and users while slowing down the network. We found that using source-side deduplication and Rapid CIFS technology to back up data to the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance was faster—with the average rate of data backup at 8.99 TB per hour. The backup to the DR6000 completed in two-thirds the time that the backup to the industry-leading deduplication appliance completed. Backing up to the DR6000 consumed less than one-sixth the bandwidth needed to back up to the industry-leading deduplication appliance. In addition, the DR6000 needed less rack space and cost a third less than the competition. The solution to lengthy backup windows is clear: Save time and network bandwidth with source-side deduplication built into the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance.
EDB Postgres Ark is a database-as-a-service framework for public, private, and hybrid clouds that automates infrastructure provisioning and de-provisioning as well
as database installation and configuration, allowing you to deploy and begin managing databases within minutes.
IBM eX5 Workload Optimized x86 ServersCliff Kinard
Learn about how these IBM eX5 servers are purposely built for workloads. This presentation shows how IBM's pre-configured solutions can reduce deployment time from months to weeks while saving clients over $100,000 in installation and setup costs.
Flash is Changing Business
In business timing is everything. We all know the phrase "Time is Money", right? This is especially true when it comes to business-critical applications. Any delays in delivering data and processing could result in lost customers, lost revenue and lost trust.
thinkASG's new eBook "Our Hero Flash" discusses these challenges and looks at how Flash is changing business as we know it today. Read about how Flash is providing a platform for innovation and making a huge impact on the way healthcare organizations are engaging with their patients. Customer service oriented companies can better connect with their customers much faster than before and decrease time needed to help them.
EDB Postgres Backup and Recovery allows DBAs to easily manage backup and recovery tasks for multiple databases from a centralized location making custom scripts obsolete.
Back up deduplicated data in less time with the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appli...Principled Technologies
Backing up data is a key component in data protection. However, long backup windows can cause headaches for IT and users while slowing down the network. We found that using source-side deduplication and Rapid CIFS technology to back up data to the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance was faster—with the average rate of data backup at 8.99 TB per hour. The backup to the DR6000 completed in two-thirds the time that the backup to the industry-leading deduplication appliance completed. Backing up to the DR6000 consumed less than one-sixth the bandwidth needed to back up to the industry-leading deduplication appliance. In addition, the DR6000 needed less rack space and cost a third less than the competition. The solution to lengthy backup windows is clear: Save time and network bandwidth with source-side deduplication built into the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance.
Presentation given 7th March 2017, including recent withdrawal announcement about POWER7 servers, the new AIX website, AIX Enterprise Edition, PowerVC and Cloud, IBM Design Thinking, Project Monocle, IBM Systems PoV, my Insurance story where I took a surprise trip to Lisbon, Hybrid Cloud, IBM Power Systems Enterprise servers for Cloud, reference architectures with PowerVC and OpenStack, OpenPOWER Foundation, LC servers, MondoDB, GPU and NVLink, Deep Learning, PowerAI and POWER9
Daum evaluated solutions that could address the limitations in the resource-intensive analysis required by Hadoop and the NoSQL database management systems. To meet the data analysis requirements for its search engine and the Internet services businesses, the company selected Pivotal Greenplum Database, which connects to Hadoop and enables the co-processing of both structured and unstructured data within a single solution.
To learn more, visit pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-greenplum-database.
Do more in your data center with the Hitachi Compute Blade 500 blade server. This highly reliable enterprise platform is designed for virtualization and is the ideal platform for cloud computing applications.
IBM Data Engine for Hadoop and Spark - POWER System Edition ver1 March 2016Anand Haridass
This document describes the IBM Data Engine for Hadoop and Spark (IDEHS) - Power Systems Edition, an IBM integrated solution. This solution features a technical-computing architecture that supports running Big Data-related workloads more easily and with higher performance. It includes the servers, network switches, and software needed to run MapReduce and Spark-based workloads.
A Comparison of EDB Postgres to Self-Supported PostgreSQLEDB
Like all database management systems, PostgreSQL requires additional enterprise tools and capabilities to ensure high availability at scale. These include additional tools for backup, disaster recovery, replication, monitoring and data migration.
To meet these needs, EnterpriseDB created the EDB Postgres Platform.
This document explains the key differences between PostgreSQL using the EDB Postgres Platform compared to self-supported PostgreSQL alone.
Dell PowerEdge M820 blades: Balancing performance, density, and high availabi...Principled Technologies
Finding a server that can deliver the right balance of high workload performance, density, and RAS features can help you meet both infrastructure and business goals at the same time.
In our tests, the single-width Dell PowerEdge M820 blade delivered 19.3 percent better Oracle Database 12c performance than the HP ProLiant BL680c G7 in half the space, meaning it could deliver 2.38 times more transactions per U. The value of the denser Dell PowerEdge M820 was clear in our cost analysis of the two systems. Because the Dell PowerEdge M820 takes up less space, you need fewer enclosures, less rack space, and can save on port costs. In our sample comparison of two performance-equivalent solutions, we found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 solution could save up to 42.1 percent compared to an HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution. That’s money that you can use to buy even more servers for greater performance or to innovate elsewhere. We also found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 took high availability into account by utilizing key RAS features to help increase your workload uptime.
If you’re looking for a dense blade solution to lower costs with the power to handle your important workloads and keep them running, our study shows that the Dell PowerEdge M820 blade addresses all those concerns.
EDB Postgres Replication Server offers reliable, flexible replication from or to a single master or between multiple masters, and is based on PostgreSQL's logical decoding functionality, improving throughput and reducing latency dramatically, and is based on PostgreSQL's logical decoding functionality, improving throughput and reducing latency dramatically.
Move your private cloud to Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 server nodes and boost Ap...Principled Technologies
Powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 server nodes handled 2X the operations per second of older HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 nodes
For SBI Securities, Pivotal GemFire’s results speak for themselves – greater performance with fewer resources. It provides extremely low latency and scales with spikes as well as usage growth over time. Importantly, GemFire also provides a more cost-effective means of managing the data tier for high-volume data industries, like an online brokerage with plans for future growth.
To learn more, visit pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-gemfire.
Benchmarking Hadoop - Which hadoop sql engine leads the herdGord Sissons
Stewart Tate (tates@us.ibm.com), a key architect behind the industry's first ever Hadoop-DS benchmark at 30TB scale, describes the benchmark and comparative testing between IBM, Cloudera Impala and Hortonworks Hive
Application Report: Virtualizing Tier-1 Workloads using FC SANsIT Brand Pulse
This application report describes how a major industrial distributor virtulalized servers running tier-1 eCommerce and SAP applications, and how it impacted their data center infrastructure.
The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration; flexible deployment options, and services and support to enable enterprises to deploy Postgres at scale.
PostgreSQL is versatile and used for a wide range of applications and use cases in the enterprise. It is more than just database technology, it is an accelerator for innovation. Much innovation today is happening in new application development, application modernization, and re-platforming to the cloud across the information architecture landscape. In this webinar, you will learn how EDB supercharges PostgreSQL to re-platform to cloud and containers more efficiently and develop new applications that are more scalable and secure.
A webinarban megtudhatják milyen kihívásokkal kell szembenézni Oracle adatbázis PostgreSQL-re migrálása során. Bemutatjuk az utóbbi két év nagy komplexitású Oracle kompatibilitási vizsgálatainak tapasztalatait, beleértve az idei évben az EDB migrációs portálján keresztül vizsgált több mint 2 200 000 Oracle DDL konstrukciót.
Az előadás alatt kitérünk az alábbiakra:
- Tárhely (storage) definiciók
- Csomagok
- Tárolt eljárások
- PL/SQL kód
- Gyártói adatbázis API-k
- Komplex adatbázis migrációk
Előadásunkat olyan migrációs eszközök bemutatásával zárjuk, amelyek jelentősen leegyszerűsítik az Oracle-PostgeSQL migrációt és csökkentik annak kockázatait.
Presentation given 7th March 2017, including recent withdrawal announcement about POWER7 servers, the new AIX website, AIX Enterprise Edition, PowerVC and Cloud, IBM Design Thinking, Project Monocle, IBM Systems PoV, my Insurance story where I took a surprise trip to Lisbon, Hybrid Cloud, IBM Power Systems Enterprise servers for Cloud, reference architectures with PowerVC and OpenStack, OpenPOWER Foundation, LC servers, MondoDB, GPU and NVLink, Deep Learning, PowerAI and POWER9
Daum evaluated solutions that could address the limitations in the resource-intensive analysis required by Hadoop and the NoSQL database management systems. To meet the data analysis requirements for its search engine and the Internet services businesses, the company selected Pivotal Greenplum Database, which connects to Hadoop and enables the co-processing of both structured and unstructured data within a single solution.
To learn more, visit pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-greenplum-database.
Do more in your data center with the Hitachi Compute Blade 500 blade server. This highly reliable enterprise platform is designed for virtualization and is the ideal platform for cloud computing applications.
IBM Data Engine for Hadoop and Spark - POWER System Edition ver1 March 2016Anand Haridass
This document describes the IBM Data Engine for Hadoop and Spark (IDEHS) - Power Systems Edition, an IBM integrated solution. This solution features a technical-computing architecture that supports running Big Data-related workloads more easily and with higher performance. It includes the servers, network switches, and software needed to run MapReduce and Spark-based workloads.
A Comparison of EDB Postgres to Self-Supported PostgreSQLEDB
Like all database management systems, PostgreSQL requires additional enterprise tools and capabilities to ensure high availability at scale. These include additional tools for backup, disaster recovery, replication, monitoring and data migration.
To meet these needs, EnterpriseDB created the EDB Postgres Platform.
This document explains the key differences between PostgreSQL using the EDB Postgres Platform compared to self-supported PostgreSQL alone.
Dell PowerEdge M820 blades: Balancing performance, density, and high availabi...Principled Technologies
Finding a server that can deliver the right balance of high workload performance, density, and RAS features can help you meet both infrastructure and business goals at the same time.
In our tests, the single-width Dell PowerEdge M820 blade delivered 19.3 percent better Oracle Database 12c performance than the HP ProLiant BL680c G7 in half the space, meaning it could deliver 2.38 times more transactions per U. The value of the denser Dell PowerEdge M820 was clear in our cost analysis of the two systems. Because the Dell PowerEdge M820 takes up less space, you need fewer enclosures, less rack space, and can save on port costs. In our sample comparison of two performance-equivalent solutions, we found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 solution could save up to 42.1 percent compared to an HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution. That’s money that you can use to buy even more servers for greater performance or to innovate elsewhere. We also found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 took high availability into account by utilizing key RAS features to help increase your workload uptime.
If you’re looking for a dense blade solution to lower costs with the power to handle your important workloads and keep them running, our study shows that the Dell PowerEdge M820 blade addresses all those concerns.
EDB Postgres Replication Server offers reliable, flexible replication from or to a single master or between multiple masters, and is based on PostgreSQL's logical decoding functionality, improving throughput and reducing latency dramatically, and is based on PostgreSQL's logical decoding functionality, improving throughput and reducing latency dramatically.
Move your private cloud to Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 server nodes and boost Ap...Principled Technologies
Powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 server nodes handled 2X the operations per second of older HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 nodes
For SBI Securities, Pivotal GemFire’s results speak for themselves – greater performance with fewer resources. It provides extremely low latency and scales with spikes as well as usage growth over time. Importantly, GemFire also provides a more cost-effective means of managing the data tier for high-volume data industries, like an online brokerage with plans for future growth.
To learn more, visit pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-gemfire.
Benchmarking Hadoop - Which hadoop sql engine leads the herdGord Sissons
Stewart Tate (tates@us.ibm.com), a key architect behind the industry's first ever Hadoop-DS benchmark at 30TB scale, describes the benchmark and comparative testing between IBM, Cloudera Impala and Hortonworks Hive
Application Report: Virtualizing Tier-1 Workloads using FC SANsIT Brand Pulse
This application report describes how a major industrial distributor virtulalized servers running tier-1 eCommerce and SAP applications, and how it impacted their data center infrastructure.
The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration; flexible deployment options, and services and support to enable enterprises to deploy Postgres at scale.
PostgreSQL is versatile and used for a wide range of applications and use cases in the enterprise. It is more than just database technology, it is an accelerator for innovation. Much innovation today is happening in new application development, application modernization, and re-platforming to the cloud across the information architecture landscape. In this webinar, you will learn how EDB supercharges PostgreSQL to re-platform to cloud and containers more efficiently and develop new applications that are more scalable and secure.
A webinarban megtudhatják milyen kihívásokkal kell szembenézni Oracle adatbázis PostgreSQL-re migrálása során. Bemutatjuk az utóbbi két év nagy komplexitású Oracle kompatibilitási vizsgálatainak tapasztalatait, beleértve az idei évben az EDB migrációs portálján keresztül vizsgált több mint 2 200 000 Oracle DDL konstrukciót.
Az előadás alatt kitérünk az alábbiakra:
- Tárhely (storage) definiciók
- Csomagok
- Tárolt eljárások
- PL/SQL kód
- Gyártói adatbázis API-k
- Komplex adatbázis migrációk
Előadásunkat olyan migrációs eszközök bemutatásával zárjuk, amelyek jelentősen leegyszerűsítik az Oracle-PostgeSQL migrációt és csökkentik annak kockázatait.
Enterprise-class security with PostgreSQL - 2Ashnikbiz
For businesses that handle personal data everyday, the security aspect of their database is of utmost importance.
With an increasing number of hack attacks and frauds, organizations want their open source databases to be fully equipped with the top security features.
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Learn about the IBM zEnterprise EC12 which is a proven hybrid computing designed to manage multiple workloads, with the simplicity of a single system. For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Postgres Databases in Minutes with the EDB Postgres Cloud Database ServiceEDB
The recently announced EDB Postgres Cloud Database Service (CDS) is a managed service, delivering enterprise-ready Oracle-compatible EDB Postgres databases on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
Join Marc Linster for this live webinar that will teach you how to build an on-demand Oracle-compatible Postgres database in minutes. Marc will cover:
How to provision, scale, and manage Postgres
The built-in monitoring, high availability and and backup tools
Pre-defined templates for common configurations
Marc will end the webinar with a live demo of a migration of an Oracle database to the EDB Postgres Cloud Database Service.
EDB Postgres is the same everywhere – whether used in an on-premises data center, private or public cloud computing platform – providing users with unmatched flexibility to run and move workloads as needed.
The IBM Data Engine for NoSQL on IBM Power Systems™IBM Power Systems
Use of NoSQL has exploded in recent years. But NoSQL databases, which run entirely in-memory, can get expensive and hard to scale, while the latency can degrade application performance. IBM has a solution.
Prezentace z webináře dne 10.3.2022
Prezentovali:
Jaroslav Malina - Senior Channel Sales Manager, Oracle
Josef Krejčí - Technology Sales Consultant, Oracle
Josef Šlahůnek - Cloud Systems sales Consultant, Oracle
Optimized Systems: Matching technologies for business success.Karl Roche
Tom Rosamilia, General Manager, Power and z Systems, IBM Corporation outlines the way business can optimize it's systems to enhance performance, reduce cost per workload and drive innovation. Presented at the Smarter Computing Executive Summit, 25th May 2011.
This webinar will review the challenges teams face when migrating from Oracle databases to PostgreSQL. We will share insights gained from running large scale Oracle compatibility assessments over the last two years, including the over 2,200,000 Oracle DDL constructs that were assessed through EDB’s Migration Portal in 2020.
During this session we will address:
Storage definitions
Packages
Stored procedures
PL/SQL code
Proprietary database APIs
Large scale data migrations
We will end the session demonstrating migration tools that significantly simplify and aid in reducing the risk of migrating Oracle databases to PostgreSQL.
Transform your DBMS to drive engagement innovation with Big DataAshnikbiz
Erik Baardse and Ajit Gadge from EDB Postgres presented on how to transform your DBMS in order to drive digital business. How Postgres enables you to support a wider range of workloads with your relational database which opens the Big Data doors. They also cover EnterpriseDB’s Strategy around Big Data which focuses on 3 areas and finally last but not the last how to find money in IT with Big Data and digital transformation
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Opendatabay.com unlocks the power of data for everyone. Open Data Marketplace fosters a collaborative hub for data enthusiasts to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets.
First ever open hub for data enthusiasts to collaborate and innovate. A platform to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets. Through robust quality control and innovative technologies like blockchain verification, opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of datasets, empowering users to make data-driven decisions with confidence. Leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance the data exploration, analysis, and discovery experience.
From intelligent search and recommendations to automated data productisation and quotation, Opendatabay AI-driven features streamline the data workflow. Finding the data you need shouldn't be a complex. Opendatabay simplifies the data acquisition process with an intuitive interface and robust search tools. Effortlessly explore, discover, and access the data you need, allowing you to focus on extracting valuable insights. Opendatabay breaks new ground with a dedicated, AI-generated, synthetic datasets.
Leverage these privacy-preserving datasets for training and testing AI models without compromising sensitive information. Opendatabay prioritizes transparency by providing detailed metadata, provenance information, and usage guidelines for each dataset, ensuring users have a comprehensive understanding of the data they're working with. By leveraging a powerful combination of distributed ledger technology and rigorous third-party audits Opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of every dataset. Security is at the core of Opendatabay. Marketplace implements stringent security measures, including encryption, access controls, and regular vulnerability assessments, to safeguard your data and protect your privacy.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
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Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
1. Solution Brief
IBM Systems
IBM Power Systems
and EnterpriseDB
Together, empowering IT to transform and take
advantage of revolutionary technologies
The business world is changing: new technologies like big data and
analytics, cloud, and mobile are empowering business users to accom-
plish more than ever before. However, many IT organizations aren’t
prepared to fully invest in these new technologies; according to Rita
Gunter McGrath, business strategy expert and professor at Columbia
Business School, many organizations are dedicating between 80 and
90 percent of their IT budgets to basic maintenance.1
There is one direct way organizations can reduce this maintenance
spending and free up funding to pursue innovation and new tech-
nology: reducing the cost of their database solution.
A leading example of an open source relational database that is
helping organizations save money and pursue new technology is
EnterpriseDB Postgres, from IBM Business Partner EnterpriseDB
(EDB). With EDB Postgres, users get a high-performance enterprise-
class database management system that can optimize cash flow and
pave the way to innovation.
IBM Power Systems is the optimal platform on which to run EDB
Postgres, offering unmatched price performance, support for little-
endian Linux, and other important benefits that help organizations
make the most of their investment in an EDB Postgres solution.
Understanding the value of EDB Postgres
EDB Postgres is a complete data platform that is open source-based,
enterprise grade, relational, compatible with leading commercial
database technology, and capable of supporting mixed data types.
Highlights
• Today’s IT teams often spend the majority
of their budget performing standard
maintenance tasks, leaving very little left
over to invest in innovation.
• The high costs charged by some
proprietary database vendors may be
a major factor contributing to strained
IT budgets.
• Adopting enterprise-ready open source
database products from EnterpriseDB
(EDB) can help change the budget
situation, and empower IT as a source
of innovation and business value.
• IBM®
PowerSystems™
providestheoptimal
platformforrunningEDBPostgres,withhigh
performanceandpriceefficiency.
2. Solution Brief
IBM Systems
2
Open source
From the standpoint of an organization looking to cut costs
in their database environment, the appeal of an open source
solution is clear. Some proprietary commercial databases
charge high prices for licenses, which can place significant
strain on IT budgets that may already be stretched tight.
An open source solution can help remove the cost of these
licenses and create more room in an organization’s budget.
Over the years, open source has replaced proprietary options
for components such as operating systems, virtual machines
and middleware. It should come as no surprise to see the
same thing happening now with databases.
Enterprise-class
Before an enterprise organization can achieve optimized cash
flow by adopting an open source database, they need to find
an open source offering that truly meets their needs. While
there are many open source relational databases available
today, very few of them are capable of supporting mission-
critical enterprise applications—those applications that
simply cannot go down or lose data under any circumstances.
In order to offer a true alternative to high-price commercial
databases, an open source database must support mission-
critical online transaction processing with high levels of
reliability, scalability, and data integrity. EDB Postgres is
one of the few that does. In fact, in a recent Gartner Magic
Quadrant report, EDB was named to the Leaders quadrant
alongside some of the biggest names in the commercial
database market, a clear recognition of the enterprise-grade
capabilities it provides.2
Relational
As a relational database, EDB Postgres is well positioned
to support online transaction processing, without which
everyday business operations could not take place.
Many organizations today are seeking an alternative to the
relational database, which they associate with proprietary
SQL languages, vendor lock-in, and high license and main-
tenance costs. However, the term “relational” is not neces-
sarily synonymous with “expensive.” As EDB demonstrates,
it is entirely possible to get a relational database—and the
reliable transaction processing it provides—without having
to overpay for it.
Support for mixed data types
EDB Postgres includes the powerful combination of unstruc-
tured, semi-structured, and structured data storage in a
single enterprise database management system. This allows
enterprises to preserve the long-term viability of assets such
as enterprise information.
Compatible with leading commercial databases
Finally, by offering compatibility with leading commercial
relational database offerings, EDB Postgres makes the process
of migrating applications to open source straightforward and
streamlined. One example of this is EDB’s compatibility
with Oracle.
EDB offerings run native PL/SQL, the proprietary SQL
language for Oracle, and include automated migration tools
to help save time and minimize uncertainty in the migration
process. Together, these features make migrating to EDB
Postgres substantially less risky and time consuming for
existing Oracle users.
Why IBM Power Systems offers the ideal
platform for running EDB Postgres
Like all database solutions, EDB Postgres needs to run
on the right platform in order to provide the best results.
With its high performance and low total cost of ownership,
IBM POWER8, the latest in the IBM Power Systems
line of offerings, is uniquely positioned to be the platform
that delivers the best results for organizations using
EDB technology.
Performance architecture
The Power Systems product family offers a variety of
performance features that make it an excellent option to
support EDB Postgres. For instance, with support for
simultaneous multithreading with eight threads per core
(SMT-8), IBM POWER8 is able to offer four times more
threads per core than comparable x86 systems. This allows
organizations to run their EDB Postgres instances with a
consolidated, highly efficient server environment.
In addition, POWER8 offers an addressable cache size,
allowing organizations to adjust their system as the needs
of their business change over time. By investing in EDB
Postgres now, and pairing it with a fully scalable platform
3. Solution Brief
IBM Systems
3
such as POWER8, organizations can feel confident that their
database environment is prepared to scale in order to keep up
with whatever the future might hold.
Price performance
For organizations concerned about the high cost of proprie-
tary relational databases, running EDB Postgres on POWER8
is an especially attractive proposition. By helping users expe-
rience a level of performance comparable to x86 while using
fewer cores, POWER8 allows organizations to save money
on the price of per-core EDB Postgres annual subscriptions.
Add this to a server price that is often cheaper than x86
options to begin with, and you get price performance that’s
up to 60 percent better. This means that organizations can
accomplish more with the same amount of funds, and further
capitalize on the lower total cost of ownership that EDB
Postgres can offer on its own.
By running EDB Postgres on IBM POWER8, organizations
can achieve database costs significantly lower than those of
proprietary database solutions. In an era when moving funds
away from basic maintenance tasks in order to better support
innovation is a top priority, numbers like these show that
EDB Postgres on POWER8 is a great option to help meet
that goal.
Figure 1: Sample price performance benchmark for EDB Postgres 9.4
running on IBM POWER8 and Intel Haswell platforms
IBM Power
S822LC
(16 core, 128GB)
$47,446
($18,147 + $1,229 +
$28,000)
406.6k 500.2k
8.57 tps/$ 5.35 tps/$
$93,539
($29,240 + $1,299 +
$63,000)
System Cost
– Server + RHEL OS = EDB Annual
– Subscription @ $1,750 per core
EDB pgbench
– Total transactions per second
TPS per dollar
Server model
Processor / cores
Configuration
IBM Power S822LC
Two 3.32 GHz, 8-core
POWER 8 processor
HP DL380 Gen9
Two 2.3 GHz, 18-core
Intel E5-2699 v3
Haswell processors
HP
DL380 Gen9
(36-core, 128 GB)
$18,147
web price
$29,240
web price
60%
better
128 GB | 2x1TB SATA 7.2rpm HDD | 1GB 2 port | 2x16GBPS FCA
IBM Power Systems LC Server family
Many of the advantages of Power Systems as a platform
for running EDB technology can be traced back to the
introduction of the IBM Power Systems LC Server family.
First announced in October 2015, the Power Systems LC
family is designed to be deployed in cluster and cloud
environments, and is also cost-optimized for these kinds
of environments.
Like EDB Postgres, the Power Systems LC family is an
excellent choice for organizations looking to keep up with
the business transformation going on around them. In addi-
tion to economical pricing that can free up budget room for
innovation initiatives, the Power Systems LC family also
offers the ability to deploy big data technology with confi-
dence and optimize data centers for the cloud.
Open innovation at a cost advantage
The OpenPOWER Foundation joins together some of
the foremost technology solution providers in the world to
leverage the whole computing stack—not just the processor—
to drive innovative solutions.
With over 200 member businesses, organizations and individ-
uals, the OpenPOWER Foundation provides the technology
and collaboration tools needed to deliver customized solutions
and increased performance to customers, including hyperscale
data centers and high performance computing organizations.
OpenPOWER innovations are built by a growing community
of more than 2,300 independent software vendors supporting
Linux on POWER applications.
Support for little-endian Linux
In addition to the commitment to OpenPOWER, one of
the most important workload changes that POWER8 brings
is support for little-endian Linux. With little-endian Linux
support, moving x86 Linux applications to Power Systems
has never been easier.
POWER8 runs industry-standard Linux from Red Hat,
SUSE or Canonical, giving organizations the flexibility
to select the Linux option that best meets their needs. In
addition, Linux exploits the advanced hardware and software
capabilities of POWER8 technology. This helps organiza-
tions address the demands of today’s complex applications,
and provides economic advantages that scale as business
requirements grow.