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title: Ocient Architecture
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description: Learn about Ocient architecture, designed to support high-speed analytics on massive datasets.
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createdAt: Fri Jul 22 2022 15:17:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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The Ocient Data Intelligence Platform™ is a modern, scalable distributed system capable of enabling complex OLAP-style analysis on the world’s largest structured and semi-structured datasets using SQL. It features a purpose-built storage and an input and output layer designed for highly parallel interaction with modern NVMe SSD drives in a Compute Adjacent Storage Architecture® (CASA) that leverages erasure coding for cost-efficient reliability.

On top of this is a fully integrated execution engine and optimizer that were each built from scratch using modern design principles in a manner that deeply integrates with the storage and I/O layer. The result is a state-of-the-art data warehouse that can deliver outstanding, and even unprecedented, analytical capability on datasets with record sets numbering in the trillions, quadrillions, and beyond.

This section includes these topics:

- [Core Elements of an Ocient System](<./Ocient Architecture/Core Elements of an Ocient System.md>)
- [Compute-Adjacent Input and Output on Large Working Sets](<./Ocient Architecture/Compute-Adjacent Input and Output on Large Working Sets.md>)&#x20;
- [Query Performance Optimizations](<./Ocient Architecture/Query Performance Optimizations.md>)&#x20;
- [Plan Optimization](<./Ocient Architecture/Plan Optimization.md>)&#x20;
- [Exabyte Scalability Design](<./Ocient Architecture/Exabyte Scalability Design.md>)&#x20;
- [Loading Characteristics and Concepts](<./Ocient Architecture/Loading Characteristics and Concepts.md>)&#x20;

