Ingres intros nex-gen database technology
REDWOOD CITY, USA: Ingres Corporation, a provider in open source database management, on Wednesday announced the Ingres VectorWise project, a collaboration between Ingres, VectorWise, a spin out from the leading database research team at CWI of Amsterdam, along with ongoing support from Intel.
VectorWise created the first-ever database engine that succeeds in unleashing the performance potential of modern computer hardware.
The Ingres VectorWise project provides superior database technology that will allow industry developers to fully take advantage of advances in modern processor and storage hardware.
These developments are a pre-cursor for the next generation of business software and database technologies.
Initial results show that the Ingres VectorWise project achieves more than 10 x performance gains, said a press release.
"This technology breakthrough would enable a CFO to easily analyze hundreds of millions of business transactions in seconds – even on a laptop at 35,000 feet," said Roger Burkhardt, CEO, Ingres.
"This ability to extract deep insights from detailed business data at the ‘speed of thought’ will empower all leaders to make better business decisions, from anywhere at any time," he added.
Business and infrastructure software has failed to keep up with the continuous advancements in chip and memory technologies, and therefore applications run much more slowly than is possible.
The Ingres VectorWise project allows business software to get the best out of modern chips and process business data at rates that were previously impossible.
The combination of open source software and a less costly hardware server makes it possible at a far lower cost, said the release.
"We are very excited that future Ingres products coming out of this collaboration will bring the VectorWise technology to market undiluted, without compromises. The business model of Ingres ensures continued open innovation," said Peter Boncz, CWI scientist and VectorWise co-founder.
He added, "Given that VectorWise is all about re-architecting database technology to match modern hardware, it has been a privilege to work with Intel."
The goal of the Ingres VectorWise project was to improve the performance of database systems by orders of magnitude and to bridge the efficiency gap between databases and application-specialized solutions.
This has been achieved by redesigning database architecture to exploit the latest hardware technologies from companies like Intel. The result– a ground-breaking database kernel – is now being combined with the open source relational database from Ingres, added the release.