A joint white paper detailing the dramatic results of a benchmark that generated a four-fold increase in data writing and a nearly eighty-fold acceleration in data reading when using Objectivity/DB with the Violin 1010 Memory Appliance versus a local SATA disk was released by Violin Memory and Objectivity, Inc.

Both scalable memory (DRAM) and high performance storage (Flash) are supported by the Violin 1010 which is the industry's first Memory Appliance which includes this combination. Using a powerful, distributed processing architecture to manage object databases, Objectivity/DB is a high performance database management system.

Objectivity/DB was configured, for the benchmark, as a standalone application running in a multi-core, multi-CPU server and accessing its local disk system and the Violin 1010. Two software suites were used:

    * IngestProto - which is a simplified high data ingest rate data fusion application.
    * NetElem - which is modeled on a telecom Network Element Management System

Unparalleled performance and scalability increases when using the two technologies in tandem was showed by both software suites.

Particularly if they require rapid response-times or real-time data analysis, the benchmark has positive implications for applications that manipulate or query large amounts of complex data. Companies can realize, by implementing a combination of the two technologies, significant performance improvements and cost reductions for their applications.

Violin's founder and president, Donpaul Stephens, commented: "The benchmark showed that specific tasks within Objectivity/DB could be accelerated by 75 times using the Violin 1010 memory appliance". "With this level of acceleration, Objectivity/DB can extract more value from the customers' data and enable mission-critical systems with significantly lower and more predictable performance."