Secondly, we have architected our query engine to bypass the main memory by directly reading from the local NVMe storage and random reads at the memory transfer speed using Intel’s Direct IO technology.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3693109/direct-data-accelerator-the-f1-that-powers-yellowbrick-s-cloud-data-warehouse.html

“SQreamDB is distinctively architected to utilize the power of GPUs to accelerate data analytics.

Source: https://venturebeat.com/enterprise-analytics/sqream-nabs-45m-to-accelerate-data-analytics-with-gpus/