In 2011, Yuanhao Sun (pictured) was part of the Intel team that released the first enterprise Apache Hadoop in China. Seven years later, he is leading a team at Transwarp Technology Inc. that built a distributed in-memory analysis engine and real-time, large-scale computation platform, claiming better performance of open-source Hadoop by factors of 10 to 100 times.

Transwarp’s speed has attracted major customers, such as the Bank of China and China Post, which are taking advantage of faster workload processing technology. “We provide Hadoop as a service, data science as a service, and artificial intelligence as a service to customers,” said Sun, co-founder and chief technology officer at Transwarp Technology. “All applications and Hadoop components are containerized, and we can spin them up very quickly and scale them to a larger cluster.”

Sun spoke with George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) and Peter Burris (@plburris), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the BigData SV event in San Jose, California. They discussed recent news from audited benchmark results, the company’s work with one banking customer, and its smart city technology in China. (* Disclosure below.)

Received first audited benchmark result

Transwarp’s solution attracted attention in the big data world recently when it was announced that the company’s Data Hub v5.1 received the first audited result of the TPC-DS benchmark with Cisco System Inc.’s Unified Computing System integrated infrastructure. Other firms have tried to pass TPC-DS but lacked audited results, according to Sun.

“Traditional databases are not scalable to process large data sets, so they could not pass the test,” Sun said.

Transwarp has built a presence in financial services with more than 100 bank customers, according to Sun. Looking for a faster processing solution, Bank of China selected Sun’s firm to migrate Oracle workloads to Transwarp’s platform.

“We could finish the whole workload within two hours,” Sun said. “It would take Oracle more than 10 hours to finish the workload, so it was very easy to see the benefits quickly.”

Transwarp has also embarked on a number of smart city initiatives, involving more than 300 cities in China, according to Sun. “We use our streaming capability to monitor traffic and send information from the city to the central government,” he said. “Today there are tens of thousands of policemen who depend on this system for their daily work.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the BigData SV event. (* Disclosure: Transwarp Technology Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Transwarp Technology nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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