Internap and Aerospike bring fast big data platform

ATLANTA, USA: Internap Network Services Corporation, a provider of high-performance hosting services, and Aerospike, provider of a flash-optimised, in-memory NoSQL database, announced an integrated solution that creates the industry's first ‘fast big data' platform by offering Aerospike's leading NoSQL database on Internap's AgileSERVER bare-metal cloud.

The combined solution enables developers to quickly deploy applications that demand predictable, high performance in a cost-effective hosted environment. As a result, customers in a range of industries are empowered to make better decisions, faster, by ingesting, storing and analysing terabytes of data from billions of transactions.

The joint Internap-Aerospike fast big data solution combines Internap's high performance bare-metal cloud - which can deliver up to eight times better server performance over virtualised alternatives - with a pre-configured installation of Aerospike's flash-optimised, in-memory NoSQL database.

Built atop best-of-breed hardware, including high-end solid-state drives (SSDs) and direct attached storage, the scalable, turnkey solution processes and delivers massive amounts of data within milliseconds. For use cases requiring high-bandwidth network connectivity among clustered servers, 10 Gigabit Ethernet to the server is available as an optional add-on.

As part of the joint solution, qualified customers of Aerospike's free Community Edition can access a two-week free trial of Internap's bare-metal cloud to test drive the performance difference before purchase.

For applications prone to dynamic traffic patterns that also require the highest levels of performance, reliability and control, Internap's AgileSERVER bare-metal cloud combines the reliability and performance of dedicated (single-tenant) servers with the convenience and agility of virtualised, multi-tenant public cloud offerings.

Internap's bare-metal cloud supports big data applications better than virtualised cloud alternatives by delivering faster throughput and processing, more consistent performance by removing the ‘noisy neighbour effect' and more efficient price to performance - with up to 50 per cent cost savings over nominal virtual equivalents.

Gopala Tumuluri, VP of hosted services at Internap said: "Aerospike's low-latency NoSQL database is the perfect complement to our bare-metal cloud, because it helps expand our solutions into growth markets demanding faster data and decisions to drive better business. Internap has always been focused on optimising performance, and together with Aerospike, we are positioned to support customers across a range of industries requiring massive database scale for demanding big data applications to turn insight into action."