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DM4000 Data Warehouse Appliances
The PANTA Data Warehouse Appliance with Oracle is designed to match the architecture and maximize the performance of Oracle Database 10g and Real Application Clusters (RAC) for Business Intelligence applications. This Information Appliance comes completely pre-configured and tuned for turnkey operation.
The appliance includes a fully redundant, shared-storage cluster with unequaled I/O capabilities and a compute cluster with ultra low-latency inter-process communication, compute nodes scaling up to 16 processor cores, and a high-bandwidth scale-out storage solution. All of this is accomplished while maintaining full compatibility with industry-standard x64 based systems and running a standard, unmodified Linux distribution (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4u4) and Oracle Database 10g and RAC. Oracle and PANTA have worked together closely to optimize and tune the configuration for maximum performance and ease of deployment.
Compute Modules
PANTA is the only vendor offering an integrated, multi-plane InfiniBand infrastructure in a blade form-factor server design. This enables a new level of I/O performance versus competing systems, while maintaining a cost-efficient x64 price point and all of the benefits that come with a modular blade form factor. Connecting to the Storage Modules using an efficient implementation of the SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP), an 8-core compute module sustains an average database I/O throughput of 1GB/sec with less than 5% processor utilization.
Storage Modules
The building brick for the PANTA Data Warehouse Appliance with Oracle storage configuration is a dual-connected, InfiniBand storage module. PANTA has natively implemented the SCSI over RDMA Protocol (SRP) in the storage module, resulting in storage access several times faster than what can be found in similarly configured fiber-attached or network attached storage devices. Combining multiple modules seamlessly scales out the system to the required storage footprint.
Performance and Versatility
Fundamentally different from the architectures of competing appliances, the PANTA Data Warehouse Appliance with Oracle is designed to provide universal, "shared-everything" connectivity between every storage module and compute module. This means that every component of the appliance can contribute to the execution of every type of query. Operations such as complex multi-table joins and aggregations are therefore possible across the full range of batch and ad-hoc queries. This contrasts with competing appliances that have a rigid partitioning structure and hierarchical storage connectivity model. These appliances can only process queries efficiently if they fit this hierarchy and will handle all other queries sub-optimally.
With its industry-standard and open architecture, the PANTA Data Warehouse Appliance with Oracle can easily host all of Oracle's and third-party Business Intelligence applications to fit any customers' application requirements.
Efficiency
Oracle provides an advanced compression feature that makes it possible to reduce the storage requirements for the data warehouse by as much as 500% when compared to other data warehouse appliances (depending upon database characteristics), reducing both the acquisition and operational costs of the data warehouse.
DM4000 Family
The DM4000 family defines 15 reference models that cover a wide range of typical capacity/application profiles, from an entry-level configuration with 3TB of usable storage to large-scale, fully-redundant configurations with close to 100TB of usable storage. The multi-dimensional scalability offered by the underlying PANTAmatrix Server platform allows easy optimization of configurations for specific application requirements.
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