SQL/MR
Peter Pawlowski
Member of Technical Staff
January 16, 2009
ASTER BACKGROUND
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Our Founders
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3 PhD students from Stanford C.S.
! Cool ideas…
! … but no funding, no product, no clients!
OK, they had
$ 10,000…
Our Product: nCluster
A massively scalable database designed for
analytics.
Runs on a cluster of commodity nodes.
Scales from GBs to 100s of TBs and beyond.
Standard SQL interface (via a command line tool,
JDBC, ODBC, etc).
Support MR-like functionality via user-defined SQL/
MR functions.
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Our Approach: Commodity Nodes
Queen
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Server&nodes&
Processing&+&Storage&
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