Scalable Informatics Debuting Unison Storage Cloud Appliance

Scalable Informatics, Inc., big data analytics and cloud appliance provider for time series, massive storage, data warehouse, and noSQL databases, released the Unison storage cloud appliance and announced STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center LLC) report SUT: KDB131015, the first published report of STAC-M3 on a parallel file system.

Unison Parallel File System Appliance

The benchmarks were performed on a Unison appliance featuring two 8-core Xeon E5-2687W CPUs, 48 direct-attached 3TB 7.2K drives, and 12 direct-attached 120GB SATA SSDs. Inktank’s Ceph Enterprise file system was presented as a single mount point and the databases were in a single directory, rather than splitting the database across many mount points, as is common practice for this benchmark. These attributes are unique to a distributed file system model and create opportunities to explore workflows with more than one client.

“Working with Inktank allowed us to produce a very high performance flexible storage system that is extremely reliable,” says Dr. Joseph Landman, CEO, Scalable. “When testing a read-dominated workload using Kx kdb+, Ceph outperformed running on native block devices, demonstrating its low overhead, I/O optimization, and scalability.”

Unison is one of Scalable’ fast path big data appliances. It supports object, block, and file storage, and eliminates data silos and storage complexity with a solution built specifically for multi-tenancy and cloud. The appliance provides feature-rich, dense, scale out storage for private clouds and large-scale VM infrastructures.

“On the heels of STAC benchmarking results that place Ceph as the fastest parallel file system, Inktank is pleased to be fostering a partnership with Scalable,” said Ross Turk, Inktank Storage Inc.‘s VP of community. “When Ceph is coupled with Scalable’s hardware, it delivers the type of storage system today’s enterprises need.”

Systems are available.

Scalable and Inktank demonstrated the Unison at Supercomputing Conference in Denver, CO, November 18-21.

STAC-M3 report and benchmark (registration needed)