Voltron Data revs up hyper-speed analytics, leaves Snowflake in the dust

Analytics software startup Voltron Data claims to have completed the full TPC-H 100 terabyte scale factor on unsorted Parquet files directly from storage in less than an hour with only 6 TB of GPU memory. The fledgling company only launched its first product, called Theseus, in December last year. It has built the distributed …

[cyberdemon]

"only 6 TB of GPU memory."

What kind of GPU comes with 6TB memory?

[captain veg]

Re: "only 6 TB of GPU memory."

One driving a REALLY big screen would be my guess.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm, I'd estimate about 12,500 raspberry pi zeros with gpu_mem=128 set in config.txt?

[cyberdemon]

Also, what kind of database query returns a 100TB result??

To me, that just says you are doing your query wrong

[Pierre 1970]

Re: Also, what kind of database query returns a 100TB result??

Sorry, and forgive me if i'm wrong, but I think that 100TB data mark refers to the amount of data that those queries consume in order to get a result.

[captain veg]

Re: Also, what kind of database query returns a 100TB result??

'S big data, innit?

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[captain veg]

Re: Also, what kind of database query returns a 100TB result??

I've tried doing queries wrong, and got no results at all.

IMPORTANCE BY * FROM ORDER SELECT EVERYTHING

Absolutely hopeless.

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