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Ocient Makes the Case for Coupling Storage and Compute

The data landscape is replete with vendors, industry pundits, and even journalists, espousing the virtues of decoupling storage and compute. But here’s the part that often is not said out loud: decoupled storage is typically lousy for query performance.

This isn’t to say that coupled compute and storage is categorically superior to the decoupled approach.

Coupling compute and storage reduces latency for this and other use cases, like telemetry data analysis for vehicle fleets.

Again, common cloud wisdom dictates that decoupled compute and storage is advantageous in a broad array of use cases.