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Business-Critical Analysis Requires a Frontline Data Warehouse

Your mission-critical applications require mission-critical peformance. 24x7 analytic applications such as credit scoring, behavioral ad-targeting, fraud detection, risk modeling, and more are straining traditional back-office data warehouses. Database technology (DBMS) has evolved to power frontline data warehousing.

Aster nCluster

Aster nCluster is a high-performance analytic SQL database for frontline data warehousing and analytics. Unlike traditional analytic databases, Aster nCluster provides an always-on, always-parallel MPP architecture with the first-ever In-Database MapReduce programming framework which combines the power of MapReduce with the rich functionality of SQL in a single RDBMS for business-critical applications.

Aster nCluster is a high-performance analytic database

Aster nCluster is built on a unique, multi-tiered nCluster architecture which consists of three separate classes of servers: Queens, Workers, and Loaders. The three-tier design provides task isolation for always-parallel processing. Each tier can be independently and incrementally scaled in response to the workload characteristics - adding more capacity (Workers), loading bandwidth (Loaders), or concurrency (Queens) on an as-needed basis. Aster nCluster provides:


Legacy Platform Aster Platform Aster Platform Details
Limited availability Always available Fast loading, Auto load balancing, Interruption-free fail over, Zero disruption back-up, predictability
Labor intensive Ease of management Analytics auto pilot, Push button updates, Auto replication, Auto recovery from failure
Limited scale Unlimited scale On-demand plug & play scalability, Patent-pending network optimized algorithms
Value realized Higher value MapReduce, Beyond SQL analysis - C/C++/Perl/Python etc.
Increasing costs Lowest possible TCO Personnel cost reductions, Capital & operational cost reductions
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Aster nCluster
"With Aster nCluster … our data load time has decreased by over 95%, and our most important queries complete in seconds or less."

Tim Schigel, CEO of ShareThis

"With nCluster 3.0, Aster is delivering capabilities that have previously been available only on high-end enterprise data warehouse platforms."

Richard Winter, President of WinterCorp