Author: Lu Zheng, do not long, know the number, etc.
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With the advent of the digital economy, more and more applications rely on data analysis to tap the value of the data. As big data storage, an important foundation for the online analysis system, the analytical database (OLAP) technology provide an important platform for online data value.
Alibaba OLAP team after research found that the existing database to perform OLAP engine is often based on existing OLTP execution engine on the secondary development from, there is a performance loss, heavy historical burden, not take advantage of the latest optimization technology, did not give full play to the advantages of the new hardware and other issues.
With the rapid growth of data and data analysis has been strong demand, the amount of computing OLAP systems also need to take the exponential growth in the performance of existing systems can not meet the future needs of online data analysis. After analysis, OLAP Alibaba team believes that the real cloud era fully oriented, the execution engine for OLAP era of digital economy, should have the following technical characteristics:
• supports a variety of hardware platforms . To meet the needs of enterprise clouds, supports a variety of hardware platforms. In addition to supporting the traditional X86 platform