Dell PowerFlex/Regatta Database Combo Overcomes Trad Database Limitations
Dell, Thursday, November 6th, 2025
A Dell white paper evaluating the Regatta database running on PowerFlex systems found it was a transformative system addressing the inherent limitations of traditional databases, such as sharding, complexity, costs, performance, and scale.
Regatta produces its eponymous, scale-out, transactional (OLTP), analytic (OLAP) relational (OLxP) and vector database, with extensibility to semi-structured and unstructured data. It's a drop-in replacement for Postgres and can scale to tens of thousands of nodes.
PowerFlex is Dell's hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offering, an alternative to the vSphere-only VxRail, supporting various hypervisors, including VMware, and Kubernetes. It comes with software-defined, scale-out, block storage, and also supports file services.