SanssouciDB: Blueprint for an In-Memory Enterprise Database System

This chapter provides an overview of how we realize our vision of providing real-time data about a business available in real time. We show how using an IMDB, designed specifically for enterprise applications, provides significant performance advantages. We describe the particular technologies we have used and why these are the best choices for our particular purposes. Throughout the chapter we show how best to utilize the latest hardware to provide maximum performance and also how we organize data to efficiently use the large main memory of the servers on which the database runs.