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eXtremeDB-64: McObject’s 64-bit In-Memory Embedded Database
To achieve their goals, certain applications must rapidly process terabytes of data, discerning patterns to guide high-level corporate decisions, cutting-edge science or groundbreaking creative work. For example:
- A business intelligence (BI) application sifts competitive, economic and operational data to guide and even trigger corporate actions, seeking to act faster and more effectively than the competition
- Mobile phone customers demand instant response and advanced call features, requiring the service provider to navigate massive customer and routing databases instantly when calls are placed
- Drug company scientists repeatedly perform millions of calculations to test complex models and evaluate new compounds in silico in the race to discover the next blockbuster drug
McObject’s eXtremeDB-64 in-memory embedded database provides the real-time 64-bit processing to greatly accelerate sorting, retrieving and analyzing with very large data stores.
In addition to the in-memory database system (IMDS) version, eXtremeDB-64 is available as a hybrid embedded 64-bit database, called eXtremeDB-64 Fusion, that enables developers to combine all-in-memory with on-disk data storage in the same application. For details on the hybrid capabilities of eXtremeDB-64 Fusion, see this site’s page for the eXtremeDB Fusion product.
Compared to traditional 32-bit processors, 64-bit technology approximately doubles the amount of data a CPU can handle per clock cycle, and increases the amount of memory a system can address, from approximately 3GB, to more than one terabyte (1000GB).
eXtremeDB-64, as an in-memory database system (IMDS), leverages the increased available memory to support much larger databases, while continuing to deliver the performance-related benefits inherent in its all-in-memory design. These include elimination of disk I/O, file management and caching logic, data transfer and duplication, and other sources of performance overhead that are “hard-wired” into on-disk databases.
With eXtremeDB-64, McObject moves to the forefront of embedded databases in providing 64-bit support. Other 64-bit databases (both in-memory and on-disk) are client-server products that entail separate database server and client application processes. In contrast, as an embedded database, eXtremeDB is a library that is linked with the client application. This eliminates client/server inter-process communication latency, providing eXtremeDB-64 with another significant performance advantage.
Consider the eXtremeDB-64 benchmark results from a test involving a very large database(VLDB), shown in Figure 1, below, that we feel merit the term “extraordinary.”
Figure 1. Benchmark test performed using eXtremeDB-64 for Linux running on 160 core SGI Altix server, 1.1 terabyte database.
To request the evaluation software for eXtremeDB-64, contact info@mcobject.com or call us at +1-425-888-8505.
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