Data Warehouse Flavors

Flavors for Storage-Compute Coupled Clusters

  • A storage-compute coupled data warehouse using cloud disks with a vCPU to memory ratio of 1:8 can be elastically scaled, providing unlimited computing and storage capacity. For details, see Table 1.

Table 1 Cloud disk flavors with a vCPU to memory ratio of 1:8 for storage-compute clusters

Flavor

CPU Architecture

vCPU

Memory (GB)

Storage Capacity Per Node

Default Storage

Step (GB)

Recommended Storage

Number of DNs

Scenario

dwsx2.xlarge.m7n

x86

4

32

20 GB-2,000 GB

100

10

800

1

Suitable for GaussDB(DWS) starters. These flavors can be used for testing, learning environments, or small-scale analytics systems.

dwsx2.2xlarge.m7n

x86

8

64

100 GB-4,000 GB

200

100

1600

1

Suitable for internal data warehousing and report analysis in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

dwsx2.4xlarge.m7n

x86

16

128

100 GB-8,000 GB

400

100

3200

1

dwsx2.8xlarge.m7n

x86

32

256

100 GB-16,000 GB

800

100

6400

2

Recommended for the production environment. These flavors are applicable to OLAP systems that have to deal with large data volumes, BI reports, and data visualizations on large screens for most companies.

dwsx2.16xlarge.m7n

x86

64

512

100 GB-32,000 GB

1600

100

12800

4

These flavors can deliver excellent performance and are applicable to high-throughput data warehouse processing and high-concurrency online query.