VAST DataBase

All Workloads, Extreme Performance, Unlimited Scale

The revolutionary VAST DataBase is a new approach for structured analytics and AI, powering the core data capabilities of the VAST AI Operating System. Experience the performance and capabilities of a data warehouse. Unlock the scale and economics of a data lake. Designed for AI, with integrated vector and real-time event capture

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The VAST DataBase has broken fundamental tradeoffs to combine the transactional performance of a database, the query performance of an exabyte-scalable data warehouse at the cost of a data lake.

The VAST DataBase allowed us to consolidate multiple databases into a single, cost-effective platform, reducing cost and complexity.

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Breaking the Tradeoffs Between Transactions and Queries

The VAST DataBase breaks the historical tradeoff between rapid transactions and fast analytical queries. It leverages deep write buffers built from low-cost persistent memory, allowing every ACID transaction to be stored instantaneously. As data fills, it’s intelligently migrated to exabyte-scale, low-cost flash, and stored in a columnar format optimized for immediate, high-performance queries. This seamless architecture ensures that whether you’re ingesting real-time data or performing complex AI and analytical computations across massive datasets, the VAST DataBase delivers instantaneous insights and fuels accelerated AI workloads.

Unrivaled Query and Update Efficiency

Traditional data formats, like Parquet, can slow query performance due to their large, inefficient data chunks. The VAST DataBase shatters these limitations with a granular 32KB columnar payload—16,000x smaller than typical. This revolutionary approach, combined with an all-flash data lake, enables incredible query filtration, dramatically reducing the data needed for analysis.

VAST’s unique design also simplifies and accelerates updates. Instantly modify tables without the “vacuuming” headaches of legacy systems. This is critical for real-time analytics and AI, allowing your data scientists and AI models to access and adapt to the freshest data, accelerating insights and driving smarter decisions.

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Accelerate Highly Selective Queries

The VAST DataBase excels at finding the most precise insights, no matter how vast your dataset. In this benchmark querying the NYC Taxi dataset for rides with over $100 in tolls:

  • Traditional S3 + Trino took 8.11 seconds, processing 28 million rows.

  • The VAST DataBase + Trino completed the same query in just 2.27 seconds, processing only 2 rows.

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Use Cases

Powering Analytics and AI Across Industries

Real-Time Content Recommendation

The VAST DataBase enables real-time queries across all data. This powers instant user profile analysis and rapid ML model training for personalized content. With VAST InsightEngine, it enables automated AI pipelines for  real-time video search and discovery.

Payment Fraud Analytics

The VAST DataBase transforms fraud detection. It eliminates traditional tradeoffs, uniquely combining the transactional performance of a database, the scalability of a data lake, and the analytics performance of a data warehouse. Payment providers and financial institutions can analyze and detect fraud in real time, making instant decisions and protecting assets.

Targeted Advertising

The VAST DataBase empowers leading advertisers and advertising networks to revolutionize targeted campaigns. By seamlessly correlating and mapping vast user behavior profiles across your entire data estate, VAST’s efficiency algorithms enable all-flash data lakes at archive costs.economics, ideal for optimizing ad network P&L.

National Security and Defense

The VAST DataBase transforms intelligence and defense operations by enabling fine-grained, real-time queries across vast data archives. It’s ideally suited for national security agencies grappling with massive datasets, allowing them to instantly discover critical insights—locating “needles in haystacks” at exabyte-scale, empowering faster, more informed decision-making.

The Power of VAST’s DASE Architecture

VAST's revolutionary Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture is engineered to eliminate the conventional scaling limits of distributed systems.

With DASE, compute nodes (the CNodes where DataBase logic runs) are entirely stateless and disaggregated from all-flash storage. These components are stitched together over NVMe over Fabrics to deliver near-zero latency. Our shared-everything architecture allows every CNode to read/write to any data node, eliminating east-west traffic.

This embarrassingly parallel approach lets the VAST DataBase effortlessly handle millions of transactions per second and deliver massively fast query performance at exabyte scale, powering the most demanding AI workloads.

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Optimal Data Compression, Effortless Efficiency

Finding the right balance for file sizing in open formats like Parquet and ORC is a persistent challenge. Large files reduce metastore load and offer better compression, yet they force query engines to needlessly sift through and decompress vast amounts of data.

The VAST DataBase eliminates this data engineering hassle with its next-generation approach to data reduction. It globally compresses columnar chunks using Similarity-Based Data Reduction. Every chunk is added to a global compression cluster, achieving greater savings than typical single-file methods.

Similarity is so powerful, it finds reduction even on pre-reduced and encrypted data, delivering a minimum of 3:1 compression. This guarantees unparalleled savings, ensuring your data is always optimized without manual file sizing complexities.

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Seamless Integration with Open Standards

The VAST DataBase provides a unified platform for modern analytics and AI. It seamlessly integrates with your preferred open standard tools and frameworks, allowing you to leverage its power for both structured data and vector processing. This means you can manage and analyze vast datasets, driving real-time insights and powering your most demanding AI workflows with your preferred tools.

The VAST DataBase Embraces Open Data Science Standards

The First Unified Platform for All Your Data

Modern AI demands complete, real-time access to both unstructured and structured data. The VAST AI Operating System uniquely powers all your diverse data applications—from raw files to refined insights—delivering the backbone to help you operationalize AI.

The VAST DataStore provides all-flash performance at archive economics for unstructured file and object data, serving it via any protocol. Complementing this, the VAST DataBase’s integrated transactional, analytical, and vector capabilities lay the essential groundwork for the semantic layer crucial to AI training and inference. This powerful convergence simplifies your data pipeline, accelerates analytics, and enables real-time event processing across your entire data universe.

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Features

Designed for AI and Analytics at Scale

Scalable Design​

Maximizing performance, cost, and flexibility at exabyte scale.

Native to the VAST AI OS

The VAST DataBase is seamlessly integrated into the VAST AI Operating System, allowing it to fully leverage the DASE architecture for linear scale and optimal performance.

Scalable ACID Transactions​​

The VAST DataBase provides support for fully ACID transactions and atomic updates within and across tables.

Disaggregated Architecture​​

VAST DataBase logic runs on completely stateless compute nodes (CNodes). This disaggregated approach allows for effortless, linear scaling with highly flexible topologies, ensuring optimal performance as analytics and AI workloads grow.

Global Data Reduction​​

VAST’s Similarity-Based data reduction combines the global nature of deduplication with the fine granularity of compression across your entire global namespace.​

Massive Performance & Scale​​

VAST systems can easily be built to support over an exabyte of data capacity, millions of transactions, and terabytes/second of query throughput.​

Hassle-Free Table Management​​

No need for compaction, data vacuuming, or partition management – the VAST DataBase is always fast and manages table cleanup for you.​

Scalable Design​

Maximizing performance, cost, and flexibility at exabyte scale.

Native to the VAST AI OS

The VAST DataBase is seamlessly integrated into the VAST AI Operating System, allowing it to fully leverage the DASE architecture for linear scale and optimal performance.

Scalable ACID Transactions​​

The VAST DataBase provides support for fully ACID transactions and atomic updates within and across tables.

Disaggregated Architecture​​

VAST DataBase logic runs on completely stateless compute nodes (CNodes). This disaggregated approach allows for effortless, linear scaling with highly flexible topologies, ensuring optimal performance as analytics and AI workloads grow.

Global Data Reduction​​

VAST’s Similarity-Based data reduction combines the global nature of deduplication with the fine granularity of compression across your entire global namespace.​

Massive Performance & Scale​​

VAST systems can easily be built to support over an exabyte of data capacity, millions of transactions, and terabytes/second of query throughput.​

Hassle-Free Table Management​​

No need for compaction, data vacuuming, or partition management – the VAST DataBase is always fast and manages table cleanup for you.​

Secure Operations​

Ensure continuity and control with features like robust replication, comprehensive auditing, and snapshot management.​

Disaster Recovery​​

The VAST DataBase supports n:1 and 1:n asynchronous replication topologies, and couples replication with 15 second recovery points to make failover near-real-time.​

Granular Auditing & Policy Enforcement

The VAST DataBase provides robust, granular auditing capabilities. Directly query the “who,” “what,” and “how” of all cluster and data access, enabling a comprehensive approach to audit and access policy enforcement. This ensures unparalleled security and compliance for your most sensitive analytics and and AI data.

Global Snapshots​

VAST clusters use write-in-free-space semantics to make snapshots painless. It’s easy to snapshot one table or many tables consistently, making it simple to remove the complexity of time travel.​

Secure Operations​

Ensure continuity and control with features like robust replication, comprehensive auditing, and snapshot management.​

Disaster Recovery​​

The VAST DataBase supports n:1 and 1:n asynchronous replication topologies, and couples replication with 15 second recovery points to make failover near-real-time.​

Granular Auditing & Policy Enforcement

The VAST DataBase provides robust, granular auditing capabilities. Directly query the “who,” “what,” and “how” of all cluster and data access, enabling a comprehensive approach to audit and access policy enforcement. This ensures unparalleled security and compliance for your most sensitive analytics and and AI data.

Global Snapshots​

VAST clusters use write-in-free-space semantics to make snapshots painless. It’s easy to snapshot one table or many tables consistently, making it simple to remove the complexity of time travel.​

Management Efficiency​

Streamlined data management for complex workloads​.

Columnar Data Store Optimized for Analytics

The VAST DataBase converts rows into a columnar structure, optimizing your data for super-performant analytics and AI queries.

A DataStore Designed for All-Flash Economics

VAST DataBase leverages VAST DataStore to deliver all-flash performance and archive economics, maximizing endurance for AI/analytics at scale.

Comprehensive Data Type Support

The VAST DataBase provides robust support for a full spectrum of data types. From fundamental numerical and string formats to flexible collections like arrays and maps, and critically, integrated vectors (including nested structures), VAST is designed for the diverse and complex data needs of today's analytics and AI workloads. This comprehensive capability ensures you can manage, query, and derive insights from all your data, no matter its form or complexity.

Seamless Integrations

Load and analyze data effortlessly with broad support for popular analytics, data science, and ingest tools.

Management Efficiency​

Streamlined data management for complex workloads​.

Columnar Data Store Optimized for Analytics

The VAST DataBase converts rows into a columnar structure, optimizing your data for super-performant analytics and AI queries.

A DataStore Designed for All-Flash Economics

VAST DataBase leverages VAST DataStore to deliver all-flash performance and archive economics, maximizing endurance for AI/analytics at scale.

Comprehensive Data Type Support

The VAST DataBase provides robust support for a full spectrum of data types. From fundamental numerical and string formats to flexible collections like arrays and maps, and critically, integrated vectors (including nested structures), VAST is designed for the diverse and complex data needs of today's analytics and AI workloads. This comprehensive capability ensures you can manage, query, and derive insights from all your data, no matter its form or complexity.

Seamless Integrations

Load and analyze data effortlessly with broad support for popular analytics, data science, and ingest tools.

Consumption Model

Flexible Licensing & Ownership, Total Control

Unlike traditional vendors, VAST Data’s Gemini model separates software licensing and hardware purchasing, putting you in control. With Gemini, you license VAST managed software on hardware that is purchased directly from a verified manufacturer at cost. Gemini provides customers more flexibility and new ways to save on data platform solutions - all while delivering unrivaled levels of scale-out deployment simplicity.