To provide unprecedented data throughput, VectorWise combines its new ultra-high performance query processor with a data storage architecture that goes far beyond the column store technologies currently being popularized. This architecture combines columnar and row-wise data formats, includes new automatic compression and table clustering techniques, and optimizes disk throughput in the face of concurrent query accesses.
In all, the VectorWise engine delivers extremely high query performance on a single computer, handling data sets that scale into the terabytes,
without needing either excessive amounts of disks or the tuning
complexity of a clustered massively parallel processing (MPP) system.