Dynamite Data Opts for OCZ SSDs

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. announced that Dynamite Data LLC, an online retail
channel intelligence, has selected OCZ’s Deneva 2 SATA III SSDs as part of its
updated storage infrastructure.

With the addition of Deneva 2 SSDs to its web-based comparative shopping
service, Dynamite Data can now cache hot data on SSD flash residing in a host
server providing clients with critical, competitive and
real-time insights on retail big data, with over 30 million extractions every
day from merchants worldwide.

The excessive downloading of product comparisons and pricing scenarios by
subscribers, in conjunction with loading database indexes at 30 to 50 million
web pages per day, combined with general network I/O activity, caused disk strain in Dynamite Data’s initial enterprise storage
environment. Using conventional HDDs penalized system
performance and caused disk I/O bottlenecks and latency delays.

In addition, the MySQL comparative product databases did not adequately scale
when stored in conventional HDDs and required additional drives to satisfy
server workload demands, RAID redundancy (in the event of hard drive failures)
and more power, cooling and maintenance costs, all of which drove up TCO.

As part of its recent IT refresh, Dynamite Data researched
competitive enterprise SSDs for inclusion and selected Deneva 2 SSDs.
With the fast transactional performance for SATA III-based
drives, Deneva 2 SSDs deliver up to 80,000 IOPS performance (random 4K writes), a maximum bandwidth of 550 MB/s, and
support up to 480GB capacities. Supporting endurance and reliability,
SSDs include power loss data protection, minimal write amplification,
intelligent block management and wear-leveling, security encryption, and ECC algorithms and techniques.

Dynamite Data conducted a battery of tests on the Deneva 2 SSDs to gauge
improvements in database performance and data access. The tests included
generating excessive product comparisons and pricing downloads, loading
millions of unstructured web buy pages into structured MySQL indexes, all while
concurrently running general network I/O activity.

In comparison to its original HDD storage configuration,
the Deneva 2 SSDs
delivered
the following performance improvements:

• 430% improvement in read performance;
• 400% improvement in write performance;
• 420% improvement in total read/write performance; and
• 430% improvement in the average number of MySQL queries handled per
  second.

"By configuring system level applications
and database indexes on Deneva 2 SSDs, we eliminated the disk I/O bottlenecks
our subscribers experienced in favor of solid-state flash storage that delivers
significant and noticeable improvements in system application performance and
access to comparative product information," said Kristopher Kubicki, chief
architect for Dynamite Data. "With
this improved performance, scalability and endurance, the Deneva 2 SSDs will
enable us to data warehouse even more web-based retail channel products while providing
our subscribers with heightened experiences."

"We are very pleased that Dynamite
Data implemented our Deneva 2 SSDs into their refreshed enterprise enabling
significantly faster access to database indexes and comparative product
information," said Alex Mei, CMO for OCZ Technology. "With three billion buy pages available
globally, Dynamite Data’s objective to data warehouse all e-commerce products
for its retail channel is now a reality with our SATA III-based SSDs added to
the infrastructure."