News Release

Today, PG-Strom Developers Team released PG-Strom v3.0 including new features; NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage support, GPU version of PostGIS, GiST index support and so on.

Major changes in PG-Strom v3.0 are as follows:

• NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (cuFile) is now supported.

• Several PostGIS functions are executable on GPUs.

• GpuJoin using GiST index is now supported.

• GPU Cache mechanism is newly implemented.

• User-defined GPU data types/functions/operators are experimentally supported.

• Software license was switched from GPLv2 to PostgreSQL license.

• PG-Strom v3.0 Release Note

  • http://heterodb.github.io/pg-strom/release_v3.0/

• PG-Strom Project GitHub

  • https://github.com/heterodb/pg-strom

HeteroDB Inc has been committed to the software improvements such as further enhancements and performance improvements of PG-Strom, and sticks to making fun technologies a reality. Also, we support design, operation, and improvement of customer's system through the relevant technologies.

Today, HeteroDB,Inc (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan, CEO: KaiGai Kohei) released subscription products of PG-Strom which is GPU accelerated database technology, and appliance server product with this software.

PG-Strom which pull out maximum capability of the least hardware, offers DWH-class performance with 1U/2U rack server.

PG-Strom is an extension module designed for PostgreSQL which is one of the most successful open source relational database management system. It automatically generates GPU programs from SQL commands, and runs SQL workloads in parallel using a few thousand cores and high-bandwidth memory of GPU, so accelerates reporting and analytics workloads to big-data.

Major usage of PG-Strom

• Data Ware House / Data Mart

• Batch Jobs / Reporting

• Log data analytics platform

• Anomaly detection system platform

• Statistical analytics / machine-learning platform

Features and characteristics of PG-Strom

• • Works as a part of PostgreSQL, thus full compatibility of data and query

  • Transparent SQL acceleration with GPU and auto-generated programs

  • SSD-to-GPU Direct SQL Execution

  • In-memory columnar cache

  • GPU memory store (gstore_fdw)

  • PL/CUDA user defined function

List of the new products

• Software Subscription Products

  • PG-Strom Enterprise Subscription (1GPU, 1 year)

  • PG-Strom Enterprise Subscription (1GPU, 3 year)

• Appliance Server Products

  • HeteroServer GS120-P40

  • Software subscription products can be used on only validated hardware / software configuration.

  • Open price for all the products

At the GPU Technology Conference Japan 2017 (hereafter; GTCJapan), held from 12-Dec to 13-Dec-2017, 19 domestic startups in the machine-learning and data-science field had presentations for their own businesses and technologies, then, we could get the award of the highest prize.

Also, in the poster session of the GTCJapan, our poster titled as "PL/CUDA - In-database massive parallel analytics", by KaiGai Kohei (CEO of HeteroDB,Inc), got the award of the best poster in the five finalist, determined by the voting of participants.

It is very honor thing to get these award in GTCJapan, which is the largest conference in the GPU technology field, towards what we have worked for long days - acceleration of large data processing by GPU and in-database analytics that expands database usages.

HeteroDB will continue to work on technology and product development in order to meet the expectations of users and everyones involved.

HeteroDB,Inc (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President: Kohei KaiGai; hereinafter HeteroDB) a leading developer and provider of high-performance database technology solution with GPUs, today announced the company has been accepted by NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, CA, President & CEO: Jensen Huang; hereinafter NVIDIA) as a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, which support startups in AI and data science.

The NVIDIA Inception Program enables HeteroDB to receive technical support including the latest GPU computing technology from NVIDIA and to conduct joint marketing activities.

HeteroDB’s core technology is the PG-Strom, which accelerates PostgreSQL’s query processing workloads, and also offers in-database analytics along with machine-learning capability. By utilizing the Inception Program, HeteroDB will strengthen the research and development for high-performance database solutions built on this core technology, optimized to the latest-generation GPUs. HeteroDB is committed in delivering the power of heterogeneous computing architecture for users around the world through databases.

NVIDIA’s Inception Program nurtures dedicated and exceptional startups who are revolutionizing industries with advances in AI and data science. A virtual accelerator program, Inception helps startups during critical stages of product development, prototyping, and deployment. Every Inception member gets a custom set of ongoing benefits, from hardware grants and marketing support to training with deep learning experts. More details about NVIDIA’s Inception program can be found at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/startups/.

about HeteroDB,Inc

HeteroDB,Inc is a startup for development, sales and related solutions of HeteroServer [*1] that enables to pull out maximum capability of the latest hardware like GPUs or NVMe-SSDs, so that accelerates database workloads and simplifies system operation. We are a group of professionals at GPU computing and database systems, to provide the best solution according to deep insight to customer's problem, and to contribute innovation outcomes for open source community and growth of the eco-systems.

[*1] HeteroServer: a high-performance database appliance solution which installs the latest GPU/SSD hardware and PG-Strom extension module to pull out maximum capability of them, on top of the PostgreSQL database.

Today, Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) announced six propositions, including "Heterogeneous In-Database Data Analytics & Machine-Learning Platform" jointly proposed by KaiGai Kohei (Chief Architect of HeteroDB), Kashiwagi Takehiko (Chief Sales Engineer of HeteroDB) and Endo Katsuhiro (Engineer of HeteroDB), get adopted to the 1st MITOH advanced program held by IPA.

about IPA MITOH advanced program

IPA MITOH advanced program is a public incubation program for individual persons who have strong motivation for startup and innovative idea (or prototype) that satisfies marketability and technology/business feasibility on IT region, through financial support and advices by project manager.

(ref: https://www.ipa.go.jp/english/humandev/third.html)

Project Overview

This project extends PG-Strom that is an extension of PostgreSQL to accelerate analytic queries using parallel computing capability of GPU, to implement three new features below. (1) SSD-to-GPU Direct SQL Execution (I/O acceleration by closely combined SSD and GPU) (2) PL/CUDA library for statistical analytics and machine-learning (In-database data analytics) (3) Storage system with support of row-to-column transformation (SSD/in-memory cache optimized for workloads).

Using these features, the software pulls out maximum performance of the commodity but strong hardware like GPU or SSD. It enables to re-define relational database management system (RDBMS) that is center of data accumulation in information system, as a platform for data analytics and machine-learning.

A new company established by the project members will productize a vertically integrated database system which installs these core technologies (tentative name: HeteroServer), then develops the three market segments below. (1) Migration from the commercial database systems by high-performance and cost-effectiveness (2) Log analytics of network companies by ultra fast I/O system (3) anomaly detection for finance or credit companies by in-database processing.

The new company will operate two major business segments; production sales of the vertically integrated database system (product business), and professional consulting for data utilization (service business).

Project Member

• KaiGai Kohei (Chief Architect & President of HeteroDB,Inc)

• Kashiwagi Takehiko (Chief Sales Engineer & Vice-president of HeteroDB,Inc)

• Endo Katsuhiro (Keio University, department of science and technology)

Future Prospects

Hereafter, we tackles the development of PG-Strom and PL/CUDA machine-learning library that is a core feature of our HeteroServer product, and the early-adopter development through the MITOH advanced project term; from Aug-2017 to Feb-2018.

- For adoption of heterogeneous computing technology onto database area -

Today, KaiGai Kohei and Kashiwagi Takehiko, who are core members of PG-Strom Development Team, established HeteroDB,Inc. The new company will provides high performance, cost effective and well administrative database product that utilizes heterogeneous computing technology, and related solution and services.

Mission of the new company

We are living in an exciting period when computer architecture is rapidly evolving once per decade. The Moore's law comes closer to its termination, processor is evolved from multi-cores to many-cores, and it becomes almost impossible to improve system performance without GPU or FPGA that are designed based on a different design concept. In case of the heterogeneous computer architecture, software cannot take a "free-lunch" of hardware evolution. Software has to be redesigned to pull out maximum performance of the hardware.

We have worked on development of "PG-Strom" which is an open source extension module to accelerate SQL workloads of PostgreSQL with GPU's parallel computing capability for more than 5 years. It is a quite exciting technology area from the standpoint of software developer. Plus, we have been supported by our vocation to deliver the power of heterogeneous computing that is a core of next generation computer architecture, through the database management system that widely supports human and society, and also through the eco-system of open source software.

HeteroDB,Inc we established today has the following three missions.

• To provide high-performance, cost-effective and well-administrative data processing platform, by the database product that embeds heterogeneous computing technology like PG-Strom.

• To be a professional on both of GPU and database; different technology areas, and to lead an optimal solution based on the insight to customer's problem.

• To contribute growth of eco-system of the open source community beyond companies, nations and technology areas, and to make our widespread innovation to the upstream.

Most of all, we are a company who makes exciting technologies products, and a company to contribute our society's improvement through the solutions towards user's problems by modern approach.

HeteroDB Overview

• Name: HeteroDB,Inc

• Established: 4-Jul-2017

• President: KaiGai Kohei

• Location: 1-1-2, Nishiooi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

• Capital stock: 9.99M JPY

• Capital share: KaiGai Kohei (89.2%), Kashiwagi Takehiko (10.8%)

• URL: http://heterodb.com/

Future Prospects

The new company plans production release at Mar-2018 after the software development of PG-Strom and related, joint evaluation with early-adopter users and improvement of functionality and quality.