Infinity Insurance Companies in Birmingham, Alabama has been deploying a new data architecture - native column store databases - to improve productivity for their analysis and business intelligence queries.
To learn more about how Infinity has improved their performance and their results for their business analytics, BriefingsDirect interviewed Barry Ralston, Assistant Vice President for Data Management at Infinity Insurance Companies.
Among other findings, Ralston and his team has seen a 100 times improvement in their top 12 worst-performing queries or longest-running queries when moving from a row-store-based Oracle Exadata implementation to a column store-based HP Vertica deployment.
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