McKnight Consulting Group, an independent authority in database performance testing, used an industry standard benchmark to test the performance of Apache Impala and Actian Vector, two analytic databases on AWS. ​

The results might surprise you.​
Actian Vector is was 60 times faster overall and more than 100 times faster than Apache Impala on join queries in demanding conditions, with 20 concurrent users on a 10 TB database.

Read the report to learn about:

• The Berkeley AMPlab Big Data benchmark workload used​
• The impact of 1, 5 and 10 TB Hadoop​
• How the results changes as query complexity grew