SOLUTION BRIEF

Actian Data Platform

The Avalanche Cloud Data Platform is a fully managed data management solution designed from the ground
up to deliver high performance and scale across all dimensions – data volume, concurrent users, and query
complexity – on commodity infrastructure. Offering an MPP columnar SQL data warehouse and built-in ETL,
the Avalanche platform can be deployed on-premises as well as on multiple clouds, including AWS, Azure,
and Google Cloud, enabling you to migrate or offload applications and data to the cloud at your own pace.

Highlights “Actian packs a strong punch with a platform offering capable of

Do more with less: Industry’s best
cloud, onpremises and/or hybrid deployments that also includes
price-performance saves 50% or built-in data ingestion functionality while striking a favorable
more over competitor solutions. price-to-performance ratio.”

Future-proof with hybrid multicloud
architecture: The Actian Data
Platform can be deployed anywhere,
on-premises and on AWS, Azure,
and Google Cloud.
Integration is included: The Actian
Data Platform comes with enterprise-
class, native integration that includes
pre-built connectors so you can get
up and running quickly.
Pay only for what you use: The Actian
Data Platform takes advantage of
modern cloud innovations such as
separation of storage and compute
as well as elastic scalability.
Jim Curtis, Senior Analyst, 451 Research
The Actian Data Platform Delivers the Best of Both Worlds
– High Performance at Low Cost
The Actian Data Platform delivers the best price-performance in the industry without
the need for DBA tuning or optimization techniques. Providing up to 10x the price-
performance advantage over competitors, the Actian Data Platform performance
improves with the workload complexity and concurrent users. Architected and
developed to make the most of every CPU clock cycle, every byte of RAM and every
I/O operation, the Actian Data Platform provides the most efficient use of resources
while also proving the benefits of pay-foruse in the cloud.
The Actian Data Platform offers patented features and industry best practices such as:

• Vectorized processing: The Actian Data Platfor executes an operator such as

“add” on hundreds or thousands of data elements during a single CPU cycle
• CPU cache maximization: The Actian Data Platform uses private CPU core and
caches as execution memory, which is 100x faster than using RAM
• Optimized I/O: Tuning algorithms optimize the cache just before and after
operations to further enhance performance
• Advanced compression: The Actian Data Platform maximizes the efficiency
of decompression but also delivers 4-6x compression ratio
• High concurrency: The Actian Data Platform supports a high volume of
concurrent users, allowing up to 64 concurrent users out-of-the-box

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Key features:
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• Highly scalable MPP relational ana-

lytics database Cloud-native
Business
Actian Connect Manage Analyze
Analysts scale and speed
• One-touch deployment of clusters
across multiple clouds from a single Data
SAAS Predictable cloud costs
User Interface
Scientists
Actian Data Platform Services
through workload
prioritization

• Industry’s fastest performance at Enterprise

Monitoring Security Backup
Data
Engineers
scale with no tuning required Bridge cloud skills
Management Authentification Patching
gap with fully
• Perform queries on live data with Data Lakes Applications managed platform

updates enabled through patented Maintanance Alerts Metering

algorithms that do not impact IoT and Web Real-time Improve resource
Insights
read performance AZURE AWS GOOGLE productivity

• Python, SQL and JavaScript UDF

support Figure 1. The Actian Data Platform is a high-performance platform that is optimized for compute,
memory and storage.
• Support for diverse data types,
including JSON, with autoschema
recognition and ingestion via
easy user interface Rapidly Deploy with Builts-In Connectivity
• Open, industry standard data The Actian Data Platform provides integration capabilities natively built into the
access, including Spark, ODBC, product -no special ETL is required. Using ODBC, JDBC, .Net and Python, the Actian
JDBC, .NET Data Platform enables business analysts, data scientists and data engineers to
• Built-in integration, ETL, and data use their favorite tools for visualization, reporting, and advanced analytics.
quality
• Lower cost and improved performance: Processing and querying data where
• Comprehensive security features,
applications are producing it, whether on-premises or the cloud, often produces
including:
the best results in terms of cost and performance since data movement from
– SOC-II compliance the cloud is expensive and slow.
– Built-in data masking • Simplified, futureproof architecture: Since the Actian Data Platform relies on
– Customer managed keys the same patented vectorized database engine both in the cloud and on-premise,
you will work with a single data model, consistent ETL integration and one
– Cloud Security Alliance member
technology to learn.
– Enterprise firewalls
• Phased, non-disruptive migrations: Workloads can stay on-premises until it
– Intrusion detection is ready to move to the cloud.
– SIEM logging
– AES 256-bit data encryption Built for Real-Time Performance
– Authentication integration
Unlike other cloud data warehouses, the Actian Data Platform enables realtime
– Security patching updates without adding latency. Its advanced columnar implementation enables
the least I/O performed while retrieving data from disk. Actian Data Platform’s
vectorized compute leverages CPU Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) and
processes data in the L1/L2 CPU cache instead of RAM, leading to significantly
faster performance.

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