What are the technical characteristics of an analytic platform?
Architected to serve the needs users and analysts performing advanced analysis that scales to big data, an analytic platform delivers these key characteristics: • Scalability: an analytic platform can scale to load, store, query, and analyze terabytes and petabytes of data without encountering performance bottlenecks • Continuous availability: an analytic platform avoids unplanned downtime with fault tolerant features and eliminates planned downtime and performance degradation for routine administration and maintenance • In-database analytics engine: an analytic platform provides a rich environment for processing custom and packaged analytics inside the database rather than being forced to move data to a separate application processing platform. • Hybrid row and column DBMS: A hybrid row-based and column-oriented architecture allows an analytic platform to meet the computation needs of ad-hoc, interactive analytics which are best optimized through a row store while delivering with spee
