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Kx Systems kdb+ 2.8 with DDN SFA12K-40 on IBM System x3850 X5

Specs: STAC-M3 Benchmarks (Kanaga Suite)

Stack under test:

  • Kx Systems kdb+ 2.8 software
  • DDN SFA 12K-40
  • IBM x3850 X5 Server
  • 4 x 10-core Intel® E7-4870 @ 2.4 GHz processors
  • 4 x Mellanox IB ConnectX-2 HCAs direct attached to SFA 12K-40
  • CentOS 6.3 with ext4 filesystem

Tested by STAC

Comparison to Kanaga results after February 2014 is not necessarily valid due to a change in the benchmark policy (STAC-M3 Benchmark Specs - Kanaga Rev H) to allow the pre-loading of data.

The code that produced the STAC-M3.ß1.1T.NBBO benchmark results in this report actually implemented STAC-M3.ß1.1T.NBBO-Q (see STAC-M3 Antuco specifications for descriptions of the operations). NBBO-Q involves processing and saving more data as well as more computation. It is valid to claim superior performance if NBBO-Q elapsed time is less than NBBO elapsed time. It is not valid to claim superior performance if NBBO elapsed time is less than NBBO-Q elapsed time; the relative performance is not determined in this case.

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The STAC-M3 Benchmark suite is the industry standard for testing solutions that enable high-speed analytics on time series data, such as tick-by-tick market data (aka "tick database" stacks).

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