Integration of VectorWise with Ingres

Actian Corporation recently entered into a cooperative relationship with VectorWise BV to integrate its VectorWise technology into the Ingres RDBMS server. The resulting commercial product has already achieved phenomenal performance results with the TPC-H industry standard benchmark, and has been well received in the analytical RDBMS market. This paper describes the integration of the VectorWise technology with Ingres, some of the design decisions made as part of the integration project, and the problems that had to be solved in the process.