Ingres unleashes power of modern computing

REDWOOD CITY, USA: Ingres Corp., a provider of database software, announced on Wednesday the Ingres VectorWise project, a collaboration between Ingres, VectorWise, a spin out from the database research team at CWI of Amsterdam, a research institute in mathematics and computer science, along with ongoing support from Intel.



VectorWise created the first-ever database engine that succeeds in unleashing the performance potential of modern computer hardware, said a press release. It said this is a technology breakthrough that could allow companies to sift through information much more quickly and inexpensively.

Ingress said the project provides superior database technology that would allow industry developers to fully take advantage of advances in modern processor and storage hardware.

The initial results from using their techniques with Intel Corp. chips accelerate some data-handling chores more than tenfold; the speed increase was more than 80-fold for one type of database query, it added.

“This technology breakthrough will 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.”

According to Kumar Bahamanian, senior director, Software and Services Group, Intel Corp., the VectorWise project and resulting new software combined with the Intel Eon processor 5500 series and new Intel micro architecture, codenamed Nehemiah, delivers breakthrough performance in data analytics processing, and lowers TCO for the enterprise.