High Performance Data Analytics Platform

Delivering deeper analytics at light speed

Data Science, Unlimited

In the world of data analytics, there are two things you can never have enough of — speed and power. Unfortu-

nately, unless you have the deep financial resources of a global enterprise, most analytics solutions force you to

trade one for the other. Not so with LightMiner. The LightMiner data analytics platform was designed from the

ground up to deliver supercomputing performance at a fraction of the supercomputing cost. From high perfor-

mance SQL analytics and streaming data analysis from the “Internet of Things” to machine learning and complex

statistical algorithms in R, LightMiner delivers incredible performance without the hefty price tag. It truly is, data

science, unlimited.

The world's fastest in-memory analytics platform Developed by data scientists for data scientists, LightMiner is a purpose-built hardware/software combination de-

signed to squeeze every ounce of speed and processing power from every component. From our unique in-

memory hardware platform to the fully optimized SQL database and R engine, to our highly tuned predictive and

prescriptive analytics packs, there’s no portion of LightMiner that hasn’t been tuned to deliver the absolute maxi-

mum performance possible.

LightMiner Benefits Supercomputing performance without the supercomputing costs; accelerates typical analytics by 10x to 200x

Familiar ANSI SQL columnar database and R development environment optimized for advanced analytics and

machine learning applications

Client-free, browser-based interfaces make the system available anywhere, anytime

Simple, flat pricing model. No “per-user,” “per-core,” “per-process,” or other hidden costs

Easy setup and configuration. Up and producing results in under 1 hour

Works with common 3rd party visualization, charting, graphing and dashboard systems

Browser-based interface to all tools and workbenches

LightMiner Features

Highly Parallelized In-Memory Platform

No disk-based bottlenecks here. LightMiner is an in-

memory database that uses a dynamic blend of RAM

and NAND along with specially optimized algorithms

that both minimize data movement and maximize

system performance.

Columnar Database

LightMiner has a column store approach rather than

the older row store approach used for 30+ years.

Column store databases allow you to keep tables

with tens or hundreds of columns in one place. If a

query only uses 1, 5, or 20 columns, then only those

columns are analyzed. This is much more efficient

than row stores when doing analysis.

SQL Analytics

A full relational database management system for

SQL analysis. OLAP focused and ACID compliant, it

can handle updates, inserts, deletes, appends, etc.

without requiring ‘no-update’ or ‘append-only’ batch

paradigms. Additionally, it’s fully ANSI SQL-compliant

(including stored procedures) and can run queries

from the command-line, the web interface, or exist-

ing reporting environment using standard ODBC/

JDBC drivers.

R Statistics

The LightMiner statistical analysis interface is built

on a supercharged version of R that provides large-

data capability, and parallel execution of functions,

algorithms, and the linear algebra underpinnings be-

hind many of those algorithms. The top 50 R packag-

es (including those for Linear Programming) come

pre-installed. Your R code may look the same, but

with LightMiner, it will be much, much faster.

Algorithm Development

LightMiner offers a number of machine learning and

predictive analytics algorithms re-written for very

high speed and large data execution. Fine-tuned to

deliver the best performance in our high-RAM envi-

ronment, these algorithms commonly run at 10x –

80x faster than far more expensive analytics plat-

forms, and as much as 200x faster than traditional R

packages.

No-Wait Imports and Exports

LightMiner’s unique Transparent Copy Utility instant-

ly moves data from the database into an R data

frame where you can run optimized predictive ana-

lytics functions for over 3,000 commonly available R

packages.

Eliminate Caching and Associated Overhead

Legacy database engines can’t utilize high-memory

efficiently because their kernels were written years

ago when disk held most data and RAM was expen-

sive. LightMiner uses a database engine that was de-

signed for pure memory environments from the

ground up and is cache-free.

Up and Running In Minutes

Plug it in, verify a couple of configuration options

and you’re ready to go. You can sit at your desk and

use our web application to drive the system. Com-

mon administration tasks are also available via

menu if directly attached to the server.

Browser-based Interface

Forget PC-based clients. LightMiner’s web interface

allows programmers to access its full power to write

and execute SQL and R code with nothing more than

a web-browser.

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LightMiner Applications

Banking

Until now, only the biggest of banks have been able

to utilize the powerful high performance analytics to

discover new business opportunities, improve cus-

tomer service and prevent electronic fraud and theft.

With LightMiner, however, even small community

banks and branch offices can have the same real time

customer insights, cross-selling opportunities and

fraud prevention tools the global giants do.

Cyber Security

New, novel and surprisingly effective cyber-attacks

occur with alarming frequency, often by bypassing or

breaching security systems before the systems can

respond. LightMiner’s in-memory, supercomputing

architecture allows cyber security systems to ingest,

analyze and respond to anomalies and potential

threats as fast as, if not faster than, they can occur.

Moreover, LightMiner excels at machine learning,

meaning that security systems can grow more effec-

tive, not less, over time.

Government

From public health to national security, big data ana-

lytics needs abound for government agencies and en-

tities. What isn’t in abundance is the big ticket budget

allocations needed to fulfill those needs. LightMiner

solves the problem by offering an extremely power-

ful, but low cost alternative that can scale from a sin-

gle regional office to a global network of agencies,

tackling the most complex of data analytics problems.

Internet of Things

The value inherent in the IoT is in the quantity and

depth of the data it generates. LightMiner’s stream-

ing importer allows it to quickly ingest and analyze

IoT data so you can see what is happening now, ex-

plain what happened before, and predict what will

happen next in near real time. With LightMiner, the

IoT can be transformed from mere networks of

“things” into the central nervous systems of every-

thing from intelligent enterprises to smart cities and

beyond.

Retail / Property Management Retailers and property managers are constantly looking for new ways to improve their retail and business oper-ations. LightMiner’s integrated statistical, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms reveal emerging data patterns in real time – driving better analysis and decision making, while enabling managers to work more efficiently, reduce costs and improve re-tail and property operations.

Scientific Computing

Computational modeling, simulation, prediction and

control at extreme scale offer transformative pro-

gress in a full range of scientific endeavors. For the

growing number of problems where research and

development is inordinately complex and time-

consuming and/or prohibitively expensive, Light-

Miner offers unparalleled supercomputing perfor-

mance to fuel the quantum advances in science and

technology of tomorrow.