The headline says it all, BlazingDB, the distributed GPU-accelerated SQL data warehouse, we just raised a round of financing. You can check out the details in our press release. It’s pretty amazing news.

NVIDIA GPU Ventures and Samsung Next invested in us, will be joining our board, and helping us accelerate our vision of a next generation SQL data warehouse for enterprise.

We have built and are continuing to build some pretty cool answers to problems in data pipeline architecture. Here are three.

Firstly, we like the idea of separating storage and compute, it allows for a great deal of flexibility, from sharing a data set across multiple warehouses, compute that can come and go, to highly scalable and cost effective storage (AWS S3, HDFS, JBOD).

Secondly, most SQL data warehouses require you to ingest and duplicate data, and we can do that for extreme performance, but we can also skip ingest and read directly off of open source file formats (Apache Parquet). This simplifies data pipeline architectures, while supporting both high performance and exploratory workloads.

Finally, we use GPU’s. They’re amazingly fast, and enable us to accelerate a great many pieces of our engine from compression/decompression, filtering, aggregations, joins, and much more. Without the level of parallelism offered by GPUs our engine would be many good ideas, without the speed needed to bring the concept to fruition.

But enough of that, check out the press release, for here we’re going to tell you a story.