Aerospike Spike CEO talks innovation in the database | #tbt #theCUBE
Brian Bulkowski, the founding CEO of database startup Aerospike, stopped by theCUBE to discuss the state of this market with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon principal analyst Dave Vellante.
Bulkowski’s company pegs itself as a vendor of real-time NoSQL technology for large scale web applications environments. He says that Aerospike stands out when it comes to speed and scale, but admits that it’s difficult to stick with this claim because everyone else is claiming the exact same thing. What differentiates the firm is that it can show customers numbers – an approach that MapR has taken, but not many others according to Bulkowski.
The executive says that the big data space needs more use studies. Terasort, the built-in benchmarking tool that ships with Hadoop, is not enough on its own. He points at one “critically underappreciated value” in particular that vendors should take into consideration: the price of the hardware that runs their software.
Bulkowski boasts that Aerospike can deliver one million transactions per second on $2,000 worth of hardware, in comparison with the $40,000 cluster a competitor used in a recent presentation. Similar systems from Oracle up the ante hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions.
Bulkowski went on to elaborate on the significance of open-source in this market, sharing yet another interesting business perspective.
His take is that enterprises should choose database solutions based on two things, customer case studies and their own internal benchmarking of these offerings. Open-source enables all that: MapReduce has M3, the free version of its platform, and Aerospace has released a community edition as well as an enterprise trial version of its own platform.
The conversation moved on to flash. The CEO makes a big point of the fact that Hadoop was not optimized for flash. It was designed for spinning disk in mind, and as a result most implementations today don’t make optimal use of SSDs. Bulkowski sees flash as a very positive trend in storage.
For the rest of the interview, some technical insight into time distortion, check out the video below.
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