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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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The <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator with <strong>DB2</strong> <strong>for</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong> on <strong>IBM</strong> Server Infrastructure can<br />

deliver very fast query execution with consistent response times. This was<br />

achieved with the use of highly compressed <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator index data structures<br />

and efficient parallel in-memory query processing. During our project with 100%<br />

query off-load to <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator, the need <strong>for</strong> extensive aggregates and database<br />

indexes tuning was completely eliminated, while exploiting <strong>DB2</strong>'s strength as the<br />

master data repository. Figure 11-11 3 illustrates the key per<strong>for</strong>mance indicators<br />

(KPIs) of our project.<br />

Linear Scalability: Data Volume vs. Resources<br />

Total DB Size<br />

25 TB<br />

15 TB<br />

5 TB<br />

Legend:<br />

Index creation throughput<br />

Multiuser reporting throughput<br />

avg. report response time<br />

avg. # records touched per report<br />

0.6 TB / h<br />

100,000 reports / h<br />

4.5 sec<br />

6 M records<br />

1.1 TB / h<br />

101,000 reports / h<br />

4.2 sec<br />

22 M records<br />

27 blades 81 blades 135 blades<br />

<strong>BI</strong>A Resources<br />

Figure 11-11 Linear scalability: data volume versus resources<br />

1.3 TB / h<br />

101,000 reports / h<br />

4.2 sec<br />

37 M records<br />

Be<strong>for</strong>e our project, the largest supported <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator configuration was<br />

the XLarge size that consists of up to 28 blades. Our results showed <strong>BI</strong><br />

Accelerator query scalability up to 135 (plus 5 spare) blades with no observable<br />

scalability limits. Likewise, the <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator Index load rate can be sustained<br />

above 1 TB per hour. These impressive throughput results <strong>for</strong> <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator<br />

index load as well as <strong>for</strong> query data retrieval will readily meet the stringent<br />

requirements of the largest <strong>BI</strong> customers today.<br />

3 This in<strong>for</strong>mation was taken from a presentation by Thomas Becker of <strong>SAP</strong>, titled, “JUPITER: 25TB<br />

Showcase <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> NetWeaver <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator and <strong>IBM</strong> Server Infrastructure,” at the <strong>IBM</strong><br />

Poughkeepsie Customer Briefing Center on December 13th, 2007.<br />

Chapter 11. Project Jupiter: large <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator scalability evaluation 251

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