VAST DataBase

Unify Transactions, Analytics, and AI at Scale

The hyperscale structured data solution that breaks the tradeoffs and unifies transactional, analytical, and vector workloads for the AI era.

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Legacy Challenges

Why Traditional Databases Fall Short in the Age of AI

Learn how VAST ends fragmented architectures, complex ETL, and performance bottlenecks.

Performance Bottlenecks

Performance Bottlenecks

Legacy architectures slow performance with shared-nothing designs that move massive data across networks. VAST DataBase eliminates latency for real-time AI.

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Siloed Data & Complexity

Siloed Data & Complexity

Managing separate databases, warehouses, and lakes creates silos—complex ETL slows analytics and AI. VAST DataBase unifies data for real-time insight.

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Operational Headaches

Operational Headaches

Data and AI teams waste time on manual tasks like table maintenance and partitioning—VAST DataBase automates operations so they can focus on high-value projects.

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Not AI-Ready

Not AI-Ready

Traditional systems lack native, integrated vector capabilities, extreme vector scale and performance needed for AI, making it difficult to operationalize modern AI and ML applications at scale.

VAST Challenges This

“The key factors in choosing VAST were scalability and composability. So we can tune performance or we can choose volume as required. Leveraging the roadmap from DataBase to DataEngine, we're able to move data to where it's needed.”

Niall O Brion
Senior Director, AI Platform & Production, Core42

Real-Time Analytics at Scale: How Evodian Modernized BI with VAST

Evodian replaced a traditional cloud warehouse with a VAST DataBase lakehouse, cutting latency from 12 hours to near real time, boosting ingestion from 10,000 to 1M+ rows/sec, and enabling operational analytics across its BI-as-a-Service platform.

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Core Capabilities

The Foundation for Modern Analytics and AI

The VAST DataBase revolutionizes how you manage data. It provides a single, hyper-scale solution designed for the AI era and optimized for performance, simplicity, and efficiency.

DASE Architecture for Scale & Speed
Transactional & Analytical Support
Trillion Vector Store & Retrieval
Real-time Event Analytics
Comprehensive Data Governance
Product Benefits

Built for the AI-Driven Enterprise

VAST DataBase delivers AI-native speed, exabyte-scale performance, and unified governance in a single AI Operating System.

Unprecedented Performance

Unprecedented Performance

Near-zero latency at exabyte-scale

Keep AI, analytics, and transactional workloads at peak speed. VAST DataBase delivers up to 20x faster queries and 40x faster transactions, with single-ms latency and linear scaling to exabytes—removing bottlenecks and ensuring consistent performance.

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Built for AI from the Ground Up

Automate and accelerate AI pipelines, while delivering higher accuracy and faster insight. VAST DataBase unifies vectors, structured, and unstructured data in one platform, enabling real-time AI without silos or complex data pipelines.

Unified Data Foundation

Unified Data Foundation

Simplify your data landscape and lower costs by managing all data types in one platform. VAST DataBase applies consistent governance across structured, unstructured, and vector data, eliminating silos and enabling faster, trusted insights.

Feature Details

The Intelligent Foundation for AI and Analytics

The VAST DataBase transforms what’s possible with your data, delivering a unified, AI-ready architecture that scales effortlessly.

Exabyte Scale

VAST DataBase delivers exabyte-scale performance with no sharding, rebalancing, or replicas. Powered by VAST's DASE architecture, it maintains near-zero latency and linear scaling, so you can grow without limits or complexity.

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Similarity-Based Reduction

Achieve up to 3:1 reduction with VAST's global deduplication and proprietary similarity-based compression. Unlike traditional systems that only detect identical blocks, VAST identifies similar patterns across the entire namespace and optimizes columnar data—all in-line, with no impact to performance.

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Small Chunks, Sharp Filtration

VAST DataBase's 32KB columnar payload—16,000× smaller than Parquet—dramatically reduces scan size for blazing-fast queries. Combined with all-flash storage, it delivers pinpoint filtration and instant insights for analytics and AI at any scale.

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Sorted Tables for Log-Time Search

Accelerate highly selective queries with VAST DataBase's sorted tables. Sorted tables deliver near-logarithmic search times, enabling lightning-fast filtering on massive datasets while preserving the efficiency of sequential read I/O.

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Predicate Pushdown

VAST DataBase accelerates queries with predicate pushdown, returning only the exact data requested. By eliminating full table scans and reducing network traffic, it cuts latency, lowers compute costs, and speeds analytics at any scale.

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Co-Located Joins

VAST enables instant Co-Located Joins on massive tables. By eliminating the data "shuffle" and complex partitioning, the VAST DataBase executes joins locally within the architecture, delivering dramatically faster query response times.

SQL Native Partitioning

VAST DataBase enables SQL-native partitioning for large-scale analytics. By eliminating manual partition management and data shuffling, the VAST DataBase automatically prunes data and optimizes execution—delivering faster, more efficient queries on large datasets.

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Break the Trade Off

VAST DataBase breaks the tradeoff between transactions and analytics. Instantly capture row-based writes, then seamlessly query columnar data at scale—delivering real-time insights and powering AI without separate systems or performance loss.

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Transactional at Scale

VAST DataBase uses deep write buffers built on low-cost persistent memory to achieve full ACID compliance for rapid, high-volume transactions, storing data instantly for speed, reliability, and scalability in mission-critical, real-time AI workloads.

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Optimized for Analytics

VAST DataBase intelligently migrates data to a columnar format on low-cost flash, optimal for high-performance analytics at exabyte scale. Run complex queries and AI workloads instantly across massive datasets without tradeoffs in speed or efficiency.

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ACID Compliant

VAST DataBase is fully ACID compliant, ensuring transactional integrity, consistency, and reliability at any scale. It supports complex, high-volume workloads without sacrificing performance, making it ideal for real-time analytics and AI applications.

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Self-Maintaining

VAST DataBase eliminates partitioning, vacuuming, and compaction. Data is automatically optimized and managed, delivering high-performance results for analytics and AI—without the maintenance of legacy systems.

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Trillion-Vector Scale

Built for enterprise AI, VAST DataBase supports trillions of vectors using proprietary hierarchical indexing, enabling large-scale training, inferencing, and retrieval without performance loss—ideal for operational AI at global scale.

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Integrated Vector Store

Native vector storage within VAST DataBase streamlines AI pipelines by managing structured data and embeddings together, simplifying operations and eliminating the need for separate vector databases.

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Real-Time Vector Retrieval

VAST's DASE architecture gives every compute node direct access to all vectors, eliminating bottlenecks. This delivers sub-second similarity search, even at massive scale, for fast, accurate AI responses.

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Hybrid Queries

Run powerful hybrid queries that combine vector similarity search with traditional SQL filters and joins using VAST's Native Query Engine, enabling richer, context-aware AI results from both unstructured and structured data in a single request.

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Memory-Free Design

VAST DataBase stores all data, vectors, metadata, and structured data, on one scalable layer, avoiding CPU memory limits while still leveraging GPUs for speed. This lowers costs, reduces complexity, and supports massive vector search.

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Unified AI Governance

Because all data—from raw objects to vectors—lives on the VAST AI OS, policies and access controls apply consistently across the entire AI pipeline, simplifying compliance, reducing risk, and ensuring the right data is always in the right hands.

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Fastest Event Broker

Process up to 2 million messages per second with 10x the performance of Kafka. VAST's stateless design and independent scaling deliver unmatched throughput for the largest real-time workloads without bottlenecks or limits.

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Topics-as-Tables

Stream events directly into VAST DataBase tables for instant SQL querying and deep correlation—eliminating ETL delays and enabling AI/analytics on the freshest data the moment it's created.

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Simplified Management

No brokers, partitions, ISR replication, or local storage limits. VAST's stateless architecture and global storage remove Kafka's tuning and scaling headaches, reducing infrastructure sprawl and operational overhead.

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Event Triggers

Power data, analytics, and AI pipelines instantly. VAST's Event Broker integrates with the DataEngine to trigger tailored workflows for AI inference, data enrichment, and automation in real time as events are ingested.

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Real-Time + Historical Analytics

Retain full-fidelity event data long term with zero performance tradeoffs. Query real-time streams and historical archives together for complete, context-rich analytics and anomaly detection.

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In-Place Analytics

Run analytics directly where data lives. The VAST Native Query Engine executes aggregations and statistical functions in-place, eliminating data movement and external pipelines. This simplifies architecture and delivers faster insights on live data.

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Unified Engine for Vector and SQL

Combine vector search, SQL filtering, and analytics in a single execution path. The VAST Native Query Engine processes similarity search, structured data, and aggregations together, eliminating cross-system joins and accelerating hybrid AI and analytics workflows.

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Simplified Data and Execution Architecture

Eliminate external engines and complex pipelines. The VAST Native Query Engine runs analytics directly on data, reducing system sprawl and operational overhead while improving performance and reliability at scale.

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VAST DataBase
Solution Brief

VAST DataBase: A New Foundation for AI

Learn how the VAST DataBase delivers sub-second, real-time analytics on all your data (structured, unstructured, and vector) without the pipelines and silos of legacy systems.

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White Paper

Why VAST DataBase is Faster and Easier Than Iceberg for AI & Analytics

Examine the detailed benchmarking study that illustrates how VAST DataBase outperforms Iceberg, with methodology, results, and performance insights across real-world workloads.

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Webinar

Beyond Iceberg: How VAST DataBase Delivers 20x Faster Analytics & AI Performance

Gain expert insights into our benchmark results, why they matter, and how VAST DataBase translates speed into real-world efficiency and agility.

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Get the Facts About VAST DataBase

How does VAST DataBase differ from traditional data warehouse solutions?

Traditional data warehouse architectures require separate systems for different workloads, creating complexity and latency. VAST collapses the traditional data stack—warehouses, event brokers, vector databases, ETL pipelines—into a single, AI-native platform. This eliminates the need to stitch together multiple systems and provides consistent governance from source to insight.

How does VAST compare to data lakehouse architectures?

VAST delivers significant performance improvements over traditional data lakehouse stacks:

  • 40x faster updates and deletes
  • 20x faster filtering performance
  • 10x lower CPU utilization
  • 32x smaller scan sizes with VAST's Element Store compared to Parquet
  • Zero-copy updates and appends with no vacuuming, versioning, or compaction required

Is VAST DataBase a real-time analytics platform?

Yes. VAST delivers sub-second queries on real-time data with no staging or lag. The platform includes a Kafka-API compatible Event Broker that can ingest nearly two million events per second, streaming each topic directly into native, columnar tables. This makes every event immediately available for high-performance, SQL-based analytics without external brokers or staging layers.

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Will I still need an external vector database with VAST DataBase?

No. VAST treats vectors as a first-class data type, stored directly in the VAST DataBase alongside structured metadata and raw content. This native integration eliminates the need for external vector databases, pipelines, or index management.

What are the cost benefits?

VAST customers routinely consolidate multiple legacy systems onto a single VAST deployment, cutting total cost of ownership (TCO) by over 60%. The platform achieves this through:

  • Infrastructure efficiency from the DASE architecture
  • Built-in data reduction capabilities
  • Elimination of multiple separate systems and their associated overhead
  • 10x lower CPU utilization compared to traditional solutions

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