Aginity Big Data Research Lab V3

This document summarizes the goals and findings of Aginity's "Big Data" research lab. The lab aimed to build a 10 terabyte massively parallel processing always-on data warehouse using $10,000 in commodity hardware and $15,000 per terabyte for software. They were able to construct a 9-node server farm with 10 terabytes of storage for $5,682.10, demonstrating the power and cost-effectiveness of software-only "Big Data" systems. The lab tested various databases and analytics capabilities like complex queries, indexing, and in-database analytics on large datasets.