Sybase redefines Massively Parallel Processing (MPP)

Sybase announced the release of Sybase
IQ 15.3 to beta customers. Sybase IQ 15.3 introduced the PlexQ
distributed query platform, a massively parallel processing (MPP)
architecture that accelerates highly complex queries by distributing
work, to many computers in a grid configuration. Unlike
shared-nothing MPP architectures, PlexQ utilizes a shared-everything
approach, that dynamically manages and balances query workloads
across all the compute nodes in a Sybase IQ MPP configuration. The
PlexQ's automatic workload re-balancer aggressively works to avoid
contention among users for system resources, thereby providing
predictable high performance for a spectrum of concurrent workloads.
Using an MPP shared-everything architecture, Sybase IQ 15.3 PlexQ
distributed query platform surpasses typical shared-nothing MPP
architectures with better concurrency, self service ad-hoc queries,
and independent scale out of compute and storage resources. With this
architecture, PlexQ can exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
through simple and flexible resource provisioning, that allows nodes
to be grouped together as unified images, that can be assigned to
different application profiles.

Sybase IQ 15.3 PlexQ Distributed Query
Platform solution offers the following benefits:

• Extreme performance- Enables users
  to harness the power of multiple compute resources in a Sybase IQ PlexQ
  environment to simultaneously solve even the most demanding queries

• Increased scalability- Empowers
  system managers to easily and cost effectively scale out Sybase IQ
  PlexQ nodes with any popular hardware as user data and query
  complexities increase

• Architectural flexibility- Allows
  system managers to quickly and easily group subsets of compute
  resources as logical entities to respond to changing user requirements

“Sybase continues to execute on its
leadership position in analytics by developing and expanding
innovative database technologies,” said Joydeep Das,
Director-Analytics Product Management, Sybase. “Most competitors'
shared-nothing MPP systems execute queries serially without adequate
load balancing. The Sybase IQ 15.3 PlexQ distributed query platform
is an innovative MPP architecture, that accelerates highly complex
queries by allowing a query to be distributed across all nodes in the
Sybase IQ PlexQ environment for increased performance levels while
maintaining simplicity of deployment and administration.”