From the market analysis and technical benchmarking performed as part of the Hippj project, we have understood that CherryTable has unique features that are unmatched by competitors. CherryTable outperforms all competing products for time efficiency, throughput and sustainability. The potential savings are significant and represent an enabling factor for a number of use cases. CherryTable represents a high-performance database, with no special hardware requirements, 100% technology independent and general-purpose. In our consulting experience, we have found that companies can be discouraged by the cost of new technologies and tend to opt for simpler, less expensive solutions even if this means giving up part of the business benefits from innovation. In this respect, CherryTable can unlock benefits in variety on contexts, including big data, IoT, edge computing and advanced analytics.
CherryTable is also a sustainable technology, designed according to green software principles. Software is the driver of computing capacity requirements and, in turn, computing capacity is the main driver of the energy consumption of data centers. For each Watt spent to power a CPU, 25 Watts are spent to power the data center hosting that CPU. This suggests that a small reduction of CPU usage obtained by running greener (faster) software can provide significant energy savings. With other technologies, increasing speed and reducing energy consumption are contrasting objectives, but a good software can achieve both simultaneously.
