Future Release Schedule

Taipan

Taipan is the code name for the next major release of VectorSTAR, due in 3Q09. It will provide support for:

• transaction-based inserts, updates and deletes

• triggers

• constant-time hash-indexes

• transparent data column compression

• text Huffman compression

• Support OGC standards for geographic and geometric algorithms

• Python programming language

• advanced Cryptography Protocol support

Berzerk

Due out in 1Q10, Berzerk is an experimental VectorSTAR add-on that supports leading-edge GPU-based massively parallel calculations. Berzerk will support OpenCL when available.

Berzerk's goal is to achieve a further 500x improvement in performance over the standard VectorSTAR architecture. Current benchmarks point to a 1 Tflops single precision and 200 Gflops double precision 64-bit performance using the latest GPU coprocessor cards. Unlike most other DBMS, VectorSTAR can directly harness most of this raw performance (as parallel operations performed on single and double precision numeric data columns) thanks to its memory-mapped vector column model.

A single GPU card, priced under USD$1'000 and installable on commodity x86-64 servers via a PCIe interface, could thus provide VectorSTAR with the power to peform numeric calculations on one billion rows, each 1000 columns wide, in under one second.