June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
SQL Server 2014 PDW is delivered as a prebuilt appliance with software, hardware, and networking components already preinstalled. And, as mentioned before, the PDW appliance has added other features such as xVelocity-based columnstore indexes and PolyBase query integration for retrieving structured and unstructured data together. As you can see in Figure 51.2, the PDW is truly an optimized MPP appliance that has both high availability and high performance all in one. But remember, it has been optimized for data retrieval, not for data updates, deletes, or inserts.
FIGURE 51.2 PDW appliance MPP architecture.
The controller functionality ...
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