Submitted by:

Reetika sharma (10609045)

Shashank pratap chowkse (10609051)
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Administrator-less: Scalable:
 Low Time to Value by Self-  Massively parallel scale-
organizing. out…
…to Petabytes!
 Low Total Cost of
Ownership

Bundled:
 HW & SW
 Pre-configured
XML  Pre-tuned
tables  Limited APIs
Pro-actively Mine
Information:
3/4/2011 Impliance  Glean business insight from 2
 All enterprise information:
Stores & Retrieves (Search / Query)
Composes / Integrates
Finds trends & exceptions (Business
Intelligence

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Observation #1: Information converging
Many types of data in today’s enterprise
Structured (traditional Data Base)
Semi-structured (traditional Content Management,
XML)
Unstructured (text, multimedia)

Requirement #1: Store / Search / Analyze all data

Need to rapidly relate information of different types
With one unified interface!
Real use cases in paper

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Observation #2: Awash in data, but not information
Typical complaint: “I can’t find what I’m looking for!”
But just finding data isn’t enough!
Today’s Business Intelligence is too human-intensive

Requirement #2: Pro-actively derive useful

information
Need to glean more business value from enterprise data
What sort of analytics exploit unstructured data?
Need to automatically extract the semantics of text
A rebirth of data mining?
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Obs. #3: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is paramount
People costs dominate TCO
Hardware often less than 50% of TCO
Minimize Time To Value
Databases take too long to set up!

Reqmt. #3: System must be simple, robust, & secure

Sacrifice resource utilization for radical simplification of:
Setup / Configuration / Deployment (e.g., Self-Organizing)
Operation

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Observation #4: Data volumes growing fast
Data is kept longer
Lots of new kinds of data: RFID, email, photos, videos
Disk densities improving, but not seek times!

Requirement #4: Simple & massive scale-out

1000s of nodes
With low management overhead
No single point of failure

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Obs. #5: Today’s Info. Mgmt. software based upon
hardware 30 yrs. ago
Example: Update-in-place databases due to expensive disk
Today: Cheap CPUs, large storage, fast networks

Requirement #5: Need new (software) architecture

Opportunity to radically rethink Info. Mgmt. software architecture.

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 Content
Management Impliance Archiving
Types of Data

Products

DBMS

OLTP Archiving
Warehousing/OLAP

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Google Base?
Primary data store
Appliance (product, i.e., sits in customer site), not a Service
Enterprise, not “the masses”

DataSpaces
Primary data store (vs. lazy federation of existing data sources)
Enterprise, not “the web”

Database “Appliances” (Netezza)

Not just structured (relational) data
Discovery of semantics
More pro-active

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Impliance have come a long way towards
the autonomic dream
incorporating all data

Impliance provides exciting opportunity for

DB research
To lower TCO for information management
To exploit today’s hardware and software
advances
To rethink information management in a
fundamentally new way
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