White Papers

A New Approach: Sierra Clustered Database Engine

The Sierra Clustered Database Engine, the technology at the heart of the Clustrix solution, is a shared-nothing environment that includes the Sierra Parallel Planner and the Sierra Distributed Execution Engine. Sierra provides an entirely new architectural approach to query resolution—it moves the query to the data, not the data to the query. Learn how this revolutionary database technology makes it possible to scale a single database across nodes, and still support massive concurrency and deliver high performance, full relational functionality, transactional consistency (ACID), and seamless deployment.

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