FireDucks Related Products
FireDucks Enterprise
NEC extends its offering related to the enterprise version of FireDucks, that comprises enterprise support, Windows compatibility, GPU support, and enhanced performance in addition to the features of the community edition.
Free trial of the enterprise version is also available. For more details, please contact NEC FireDucks Product Desk.
Comparison: FireDucks Community Edition vs. Enterprise Edition
| Feature | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Support | Not Available | Available |
| Performance | ○ | ◎ |
| GPU Support | Not Available | Available [1] |
| Supported OS | Linux, macOS | Linux, Windows |
| Acquisition Method | pypi.org | Procurement from NEC |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | Commercial License |
[1] Only NVIDIA GPUs are supported. Requires procurement of GPU version.
High-Speed Features of FireDucks Enterprise
FireDucks already delivers processing speeds far exceeding pandas in the community edition, providing a comfortable data analysis environment for many users. To handle larger datasets and stricter performance requirements, the enterprise edition has been further optimized for even greater speed. The enterprise edition includes the following acceleration features, and we will continue to expand these for enterprise use cases:
- Faster file I/O for genome analysis
- High-speed Parquet file writing
- Accelerated numpy trigonometric functions
- Proprietary optimization features (e.g., optimized merge and groupby combinations etc.)
Performance Optimization Consulting
NEC’s FireDucks development team offers consulting services to help accelerate your data analysis programs. Along with suggesting the effective ways of using FireDucks for your practical use cases, we can also help you with reviewing your application and analysing the existing bottlenecks (including IO) to help you achieve speed improvements beyond simple library adoption.
In the past, we have achieved speedups of thousands of times, so please feel free to contact us if you are facing critical performance challenges that needs immediate action. For more details, please contact NEC FireDucks Product Desk.