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Modern data management systems can benefit from aggregating resources of multiple systems into a cohesive pool in which applications can be consolidated and managed effectively. While the benefits of consolidating workloads is powerful, the action of data consolidation can face difficulties such as system management, performance management, and database configuration for optimal performance. Particularly for analytics applications, the database management system must have the ability to ingest large volumes of data, merge and aggregate data, streamline data management, and enable fast analytics operations.
SingleStore is a distributed relational database that natively supports structured, semi structured, JSON, geospatial, key-value, and time series data. The capability to support multiple data types presents the opportunity for data consolidation. SingleStore also features a data ingestion technology called SingleStore Pipelines. This technology streams large amounts of data at high throughput into the database with exactly once semantics. Using exactly once semantics, each message in a complex distributed system is delivered once and not duplicated or lost in the transfer.
Dell PowerFlex delivers scale-out storage that adds resiliency to the SingleStoreDB and automates storage self-balancing. PowerFlex flexibility contains self-healing, snapshots, asynchronous replication, performance management, security, and enterprise support.