STAC Report: kdb+ 3.1 with a NetApp EF550 Flash Array and an Intel white-box

Performed better in 8 of the 17 response-time benchmarks than the next best system with flash storage, four Sandy Bridge CPUs, and kdb+ 3.1.

15 May 2014 - New York

STAC has just released audited STAC-M3 Benchmark results of Kx Systems kdb+ 3.1 with a NetApp EF550 Flash Array and an Intel white-box server with four 8-core Intel Xeon E7-4890 v2 (“Ivy Bridge-EX”) CPUs. Compared to other systems using kdb+ 3.1 on an Ivy Bridge-EX server, this system using the NetApp EF550 was faster in 8 of 17 benchmarks.

Qualified members of the STAC Benchmark Council can access the report here.

Qualified subscribers may also request to inspect or run the STAC-M3 Pack for kdb+ 3.1 (the q and k code for the kdb+ implementation) here.

For more information about STAC-M3, please see www.STACresearch.com/m3.