The raw performance of flash storage has made the technology a popular option for real time analytics, a fast-growing Big Data use case driven by increasing demand for actionable insights. For businesses seeking to quickly analyze large volumes of data without having to make a large upfront capital investment, Aerospike and Internap are rolling out a new cloud-based service that marries NoSQL with bare-metal servers.

The offering layers Aerospike’s flash-optimized in-memory database over Internap’s bare-metal cloud to provide “predictable high performance” for analytical applications that require a combination of horsepower and efficiency. By leveraging standalone provisioning and management functions instead of a hypervisor, Internap’s environment avoids virtualization overhead and delivers as much as eight times the server performance of standard alternatives, according to the company. Combined with speedy solid state drivers and a pre-configured installation of Aerospike’s ultra-fast platform, the solution empowers users to pounce on Big Data insights and improve decision-making.

“The Aerospike database is designed to meet the needs of a new class of Internet-scale applications that must personalize consumer interactions based on what customers are doing with their devices right now,” said Srini Srinivasan, the founder of Aerospike. “Our integrated solution with Internap’s bare-metal cloud will ease time to market for our customers and allow them to operate at speed and scale twice as cost effectively as they could with virtualized public cloud offerings.”

One of the first companies to take advantage of the integrated solution is ad exchange operator eXelate, which runs Aerospike databases on bare-metal servers across four Internap locations. The firm originally deployed the software on a clustered private cloud consisting of x86 processor nodes with 5 to 7 SSDs and 128 GB DRAM each.