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VAST Data
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Proof, Not Promises: How the VAST DataBase Outperforms Iceberg and Parquet
Head-to-head benchmarks against Iceberg and Parquet on matched hardware: about 3x faster ingest, 5x faster updates, 21x faster schema backfills, and flat sub-100ms queries…
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From Lakehouse to AI: Analytics, Catalogs, and RAG on the VAST DataBase (Part 4 of 4)
Open table formats, catalogs, governance, and retrieval-augmented generation. The path from lakehouse analytics to trustworthy AI on one governed copy of data.
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Under the Hood of the VAST DataBase: Row and Column, ACID, and Exabyte Scale (part 3 of 4)
Row layout is fast to write; columnar is fast to scan. See how the VAST DataBase delivers both, with ACID transactions on a single…
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Inside the VAST DataBase Engine: One System for Tables, Files, and Streams (part 2 of 4)
Data sprawl is the result of a hardware limit, not bad planning. Here is how the VAST DataBase engine unifies tables, files, and streams…
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Why Modern Data Architectures Break, and What the VAST DataBase Fixes (part 1 of 4)
Over fifty years we stacked databases, warehouses, and data lakes on top of each other. Here is why modern data architectures break, why data…
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Why S3 Is Becoming the Backbone of the Modern Data Platform
A topic-focused look at why S3 is becoming the operating model for modern data platforms, from object semantics and HTTP access to security and…
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So, What Does VAST Data Actually Do?
גרסה בעברית: אז מה עושה חברת ווסט דאטה A BBQ-friendly explainer, written down so I stop doing it one friend at a time Table…
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Configuring VAST DATA NVMe/TCP Boot from SAN using Dell PowerEdge
Overview Goal 2) Recommended High-Level Flow 3 )Information to Collect Before Starting 3.1) Host-side information 3.2) Target-side information 4) Steps to Customize for VAST…
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The VAST Data Revolution: Moving Beyond 4KB IOPS to Unified Throughput in 2026
Prologue: The Night the Dashboards Turned Red It starts, as so many infrastructure stories do, with a red bar on a dashboard. It’s 2012.…
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The History and Future of KV Cache and how VAST Data is transforming the KV cache from a temporary, disposable byproduct of inference into a persistent, manageable, and valuable data asset.
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, we often hear about massive parameter counts, powerful GPUs, and breakthrough model architectures. But there’s a…