a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, has announced that Sybase IQ analytics server has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the 2007 Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant report authored by Donald Feinberg and Mark A. Beyer (October 10, 2007).
The report evaluates vendors that supply database management system software to power enterprise data warehousing.
“Our customers tell us that Sybase IQ analytics server is the ideal solution for analytics. Its innovative column-based architecture helps customers accelerate the time to value for applications such as risk analysis and analytics-as-a-service.
We consider our position in the visionaries quadrant a strong validation of the role this next-generation of data warehouse plays in mission-critical analytics systems,” said Dr. Raj Nathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Sybase.
Sybase IQ is a highly optimised analytics server, able to handle challenging data warehousing requirements with ease—improving query times by as much as 100 times.
Organisations with very large data warehouses benefit from the significant reduction in hardware and energy costs due to Sybase IQ’s compression capability.
In a recent independent benchmark on a world’s record one petabyte of raw data, Sybase IQ compressed data 85% resulting in a green data environment with 90% less CO2 emissions over the data warehouse’s life time.
Designed from the start as an analytics server, Sybase IQ produces its good results because of a unique architecture combining a column-based data structure with patented indexing and a scalable grid.
Compatible with standard hardware platforms and leading analytics applications, Sybase IQ offers good high performance at a lower cost than a traditional row-oriented database.
Sybase IQ also reduces storage and server requirements compared to traditional database management systems.
Sybase IQ has been tested on trillions of rows of data and is the TPC-H price-performance record holder in the 1 terabyte and 300 gigabyte categories.