Informix Timeseries Datablade handles 50.000 Time Series Records in a single second

Submitted by eherber on Fri, 2010-05-21 08:58

Hildebrand, an energy consulting company, has developed an innovative new software solution that allows the exact tracking of energy consumption at homes. The solution is based on Informix Dynamic Server and exploits the Informix Timeseries DataBlade technology. The results are really impressing.

Excerpt:

"IBM software delivered spectacular results. In the first proof-of-concept 
we simulated three million homes sending readings once a minute and we were
able to capture nearly 50,000 readings per second using only a quad-core, 
dual-processor Intel server. In the second, we moved to a slightly larger 
server and found we could deliver analytics response times of between one 
and three seconds for a similar load," said Clive Eisen, Chief Technology 
Officer at Hildebrand. "You don't need to understand the technical details ? 
the point is that suddenly, energy monitoring for three million homes or more 
became a practical proposition."

Traditional databases struggle to deal with time-series data (i.e. 'pulses' 
of data arriving at regular intervals from one or more sources), because 
their structure makes it difficult to store and index this data efficiently. 
Using IBM Informix however, Hildebrand was able to create a single database 
object for each data-source, and now simply updates it with the latest readings 
whenever a new 'pulse' of data arrives related to energy consumption. This 
provides a far more manageable information structure, which makes it easier 
to store, extract and analyze data.

Read the complete press release here:

Just wondering why IBM isn't able to leverage this excellent use of innovative Informix technology within the realms of Smarter Planet advertising. I'm convinced that IBM would have a much greater benefit from their Smarter Planet Advertising when they would describe a real world solution based on innovative IBM technology instead of this uninspired stuff here.

To be fair ...

Submitted by Spokey on Fri, 2010-05-21 14:02.

I think they are trying - it gets prominently featured here.

IBM will never advertise individual products.

Good Link

Submitted by eherber on Fri, 2010-05-21 14:45.

Thank you Spokey for the link about "Smart Metering".
This is a good one.

However I'm still convinced that a more product focused
advertising strategy would be much more benificial for
IBM itself and definitely for the many Informix business
partners.

Unfortunately IBM has a different thinking about how
clever marketing is done (:- Exchanging the IBM marketing
strategists with the ones from Apple for a couple of
months would probably show how a clever product focused
marketing could accelerate (Informix) sales :-)