Time is money! Especially for financial firms. The heavy hitters in high-frequency and quantitative trading demand—no require—data platforms offering the best performance. Here to help, Pure Storage just submitted a solution for benchmark testing by STAC® (Strategic Technology Analysis Center) to demonstrate the capabilities of the FlashBlade//S500 series.
Time is money! Especially for financial firms. The heavy hitters in high-frequency and quantitative trading demand—no require—data platforms offering the best performance. Here to help, Pure Storage just submitted a solution for benchmark testing by STAC® (Strategic Technology Analysis Center) to demonstrate the capabilities of the FlashBlade//S500 series. The STAC-M3 Benchmark suite is the industry standard for tick-analytics benchmarks.
STAC recently tested its STAC-M3 Benchmarks on a setup featuring Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//S500 and KX’s kdb+ 4.0 DBMS. This setup used NFS version 3 and included a FlashBlade//S500 chassis with 266TiB data distributed across eight Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers. Each server had two Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 CPUs and 256GiB of memory.
The STAC-M3 Benchmarks, known for evaluating database systems managing large market data time series, showed impressive results for baseline (Antuco) and scaling (Kanaga) tests, underscoring Pure Storage’s performance.
This was Pure Storage’s first STAC-M3 benchmark. Unlike others who heavily tune their systems for better results, Pure Storage used a standard FlashBlade//S500 and minimal tuning to show that their customers can get top performance and ease of use for market data platforms. By the way, the Dell PowerEdge R740xd server was introduced in 2017.
Pure’s solution showcased considerable speed gains compared to solutions involving the same number of database servers, three network-attached flash storage nodes, and Compatibility Rev H of the STAC Pack. Pure Storage involved kdb+ 4.0, Compatibility Rev I of the kdb+ STAC Pack, and eight database servers accessing a Pure Storage® FlashBlade//S500 via NFSv3.
Compared to a cloud-based solution, the Pure Storage FlashBlade//S500 outperformed in 9 of 17 Antuco benchmarks and 12 of 24 Kanaga benchmarks, showcasing its speed advantages.
The FlashBlade//S500 series benchmark results validate performance metrics for the financial sector tick data and time series-driven workloads. The platform demonstrated its ability to run complex queries across data sets of any scale with high throughput and low latency.
Additionally, as workloads increased in volume and thread count, the FlashBlade//S500 illustrated the ability to handle highly parallel workloads efficiently. The architecture allowed for seamless scalability, crucial for quantitative and high-frequency trading requirements.
Jack Gidding, CEO of STAC, welcomed Pure Storage to the ranks of technology providers who submit solutions for independent testing against the customer-developed STAC Benchmark standards. He said, “Financial firms on the STAC Benchmark Council designed STAC-M3 to test a representative range of business use cases, and the need for fast and efficient time-series analysis has never been higher.”
STAC-M3 Antuco results were obtained with the entire data set centralized in a single directory, showcasing the efficiency firms can gain by eliminating the need to distribute data across multiple, specific directories for optimal performance. This approach underscores the streamlined and effective data management that Pure Storage’s solution facilitates.
The FlashBlade//S500 featured in this benchmark is a purpose-built, all-QLC flash, unified fast file and object storage platform. FlashBlade//S is designed to deliver high performance, faster throughput, and continuous uptime. These features are critical for data scientists and quantitative analysts running multi-threaded, time-series workloads.
Key features of FlashBlade//S500 include:
The FlashBlade platform is just one of many solutions Pure Storage offers to meet the intensive data demands of high-frequency trading. These solutions include:
In the fiercely competitive high-frequency and quant trading landscape, the Pure Storage FlashBlade//S500 series shines as a reliable, high-performance solution. The STAC-M3 benchmark testing results demonstrate the platform’s capability to deliver better performance and scalability, addressing the unique needs of the financial sector.
Trading firms and financial institutions seeking high-performance data solutions should explore the detailed benchmark results in the STAC Report.
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