Data Warehouse Appliance

References

(Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/data_warehouse_appliance Retrieved:2017-4-24.
- In computing, the term data warehouse appliance (DWA) was coined by Foster Hinshaw^[1] ^[2] for a computer architecture for data warehousing (DW) specifically marketed for big data analytics and discovery that is simple to use (not a pre-configuration) and high performance for this workload. A DWA includes an integrated set of servers, storage, operating system(s), and DBMS.
  In marketing, the term evolved to include pre-installed and pre-optimized hardware and software as well as similar software-only systems ^[3] promoted as easy to install on specific recommended hardware configurations or preconfigured as a complete system. ^[4] ^[5] These are marketing uses of the term and do not reflect the technical definition.
  A DWA is designed specifically for high performance big data analytics and is delivered as an easy-to-use packaged system.
  DW appliances are marketed for data volumes in the terabyte to petabyte range.