Infobright Technology
Infobright combines a column-oriented database with our Knowledge Grid architecture to deliver a self-managing database optimized for analytics. Our sophisticated software eliminates the time-consuming effort typically involved in implementing and managing an analytic system or data warehouse, freeing up your time and your budget.
Read the summary below or get more information by downloading the Infobright Architecture White Paper, available in English, French and German.
If you would like to learn more about columnar databases in general, watch our 3 minute tutorial on the Webcast page or download a very informative report from Bloor Research entitiled "What's Cool About Columns" from the White Paper page.
Work Smarter, Not Harder
Infobright technologyis based on the following concepts:
• Column orientation
• Data Packs
• Knowledge Grid
• The Optimizer
Column Orientation
Infobright is, at its core, is a highly compressed column-oriented database. This means that instead of the data being stored row-by-row, it is stored column-by-column. There are many advantages to column-orientation, including the ability to do more efficient data compression because each column stores a single data type (as opposed to rows that typically contain several data types), and allowing compression to be optimized for each particular data type. Infobright, which organizes each column into Data Packs (as described below) has greater compression than other column-oriented databases, as it applies a compression algortithm based on the contents of each Data pack, not just each column.
Most queries only involve a subset of the columns of the tables and so a column-oriented database focuses on retrieving only the data that is required.
Data Packs and the Knowledge Grid
Data is stored in 65K Data Packs. Data Pack Nodes contain a set of statistics about the data that is stored and compressed in each of the Data Packs. Knowledge Nodes provide a further set of metadata related to Data Packs or column relationships.
Together, Data Pack Nodes and Knowledge Nodes form the Knowledge Grid. Unlike traditional database indexes, they are not manually created, and require no ongoing "care and feeding". Instead, they are created and managed automatically by the system. In essence, they create a high level view of the entire content of the database.
The Optimizer
The Optimizer is the highest level of intelligence in the architecture. It uses the Knowledge Grid to determine the minimum set of Data Packs that need to be decompressed in order to satisfy a given query in the fastest possible time.
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