WekaIO announced record-breaking
performance of its Weka File System (WekaFS) on Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (Amazon EC2) according to the STAC-M3 Benchmark. An independent
audit, conducted by Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®),
showed that the Weka solution broke 6 STAC-M3 records, confirming that
the WekaFS POSIX-compliant file system on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a
capable and performant option for enterprises looking to enjoy the
elasticity and agility of tick analytics in the cloud. Financial
services use cases such as algorithmic trading, quantitative analytics,
and back testing can benefit from these results for hybrid and cloud
native workflows
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 analytics" stacks). STAC-M3
specifications were developed by the STAC Benchmark Council, which
consists of over 400 financial institutions and 50 vendor organizations.
User firms include the largest global banks, brokerage houses,
exchanges, hedge funds, proprietary trading shops, and other market
participants.
This
testing was performed on Amazon EC2 Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
instances using a kdb+ 4.0 database by KX Systems. Testing included the
baseline STAC-M3 suite (Antuco) and the scaling suite (Kanaga).
Key result highlights for this solution, with 15 database server nodes and 40 storage nodes, include:
- Outperformed all publicly disclosed results in 3 of the 5 throughput benchmarks in the STAC-M3 Kanaga suite (STAC-M3.β1.1T.{3,4,5}YRHIBID.BPS)
- Outperformed all publicly disclosed results in 3 of 24 mean-response-time benchmarks in the STAC-M3 Kanaga suite
- Versus
a kdb+ 4.0 solution running on a 10-node cluster with 60TB of
persistent memory (KDB200603), was faster in 16 of 24 Kanaga and 9 of 17
Antuco benchmarks
- Versus
a kdb+ 3.6 solution on a parallel file system with 15 database servers
accessing all-flash storage appliances (KDB200915), was faster in 20 of
24 Kanaga benchmarks and 4 of 17 Antuco benchmarks
- Versus
a kdb+ 3.6 solution involving 9 database servers accessing networked
flash storage (KDB200914), was faster in 15 of 17 Antuco benchmarks
To download or view the full STAC report, visit https://www.STACresearch.com/KDB210507.