• Tera-scale data warehouse appliance (DBMS software, system hardware, high-speed storage)
• Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing™ (AMPP™) architecture—best combination of SMP and MPP for tera-scale, complex query processing
• Intelligent Query Streaming™—query functions and management implemented in silicon, data streaming at the disk level
• Integrated (appliance) package
• Industry-standard interfaces (SQL, ODBC, JDBC)
• Full compatibility with market-leading BI tools, applications and infrastructure
  

Key Benefits:

• Performance—10-50x the performance of existing data warehouse solutions
• Iterative, real-time analytics—enabling ad hoc queries and complex analytics with terabytes of data
• Affordability—low acquisition and ongoing administration and maintenance costs, including expensive DBA time
• Manageability/ease of use—appliance packaging and pre-tuning limit systems and database administration needs (less than one DBA for ongoing administration)
• Linear scalability—from 300GB to hundreds of TB of user data, and hundreds of concurrent users
• Flexibility/agility—easy addition of modular processing units for scalability and reconfiguration
• Structural reliability—advanced mirroring techniques ensure reliability (full Atomic/Consistent/Isolated/Durable transaction management with RAID and hardware mirroring)