database management & data warehousing & olap founded 2000 headquarters nuremberg germany products in memory database exasolution exaappliance exacloud website www.exasol.com exasol is an analytic database management software company . its product is called exasolution an in memory column oriented relational database management system 1 since 2008 exasol led the transaction processing performance council s tpc h benchmark for analytical scenarios in all data volume based categories 100 gb 300 gb 1 tb 3 tb and 10 tb . 2 exasolution holds the top position in absolute performance as well as price performance . 3 the high speed database company is acknowledged by gartner in its magic quadrant for data warehouse database management systems as the only german database vendor besides sap . 4 contents 1 products 2 see also 3 references 4 external links products edit exasolution is a parallelized relational database management system dbms which runs on a cluster of standard computer hardware servers . following the spmd model on each node the identical code is executed simultaneously . the data is stored in a column oriented way and proprietary in memory compression methods are used . the company claims that tuning efforts are not necessary since the database includes some kind of automatic self optimization like automatic indices table statistics and distributing of data . 1 5 exasolution is designed to run in memory although data is persistently stored on disk following the acid rules . exasolution supports the sql standard 2003 and can be integrated via standard interfaces like odbc jdbc or ado.net . additionally a sdk is provided for native integration . 5 for olap applications the mdx extension of sql is supported via odbo and xmla . the license model is based on the allocated ram for the database software per gb ram and independent to the physical hardware . customers gain the maximal performance if their compressed active data fits into that licensed ram but it can also be much larger . exasol has implemented a so called cluster operating system exacluster os . it is based on standard linux and provides a runtime environment and storage layer for the rdbms employing a proprietary cluster based file system exastorage . cluster management algorithms are provided like failover mechanisms or automatic cluster installation . 1 5 in database analytics is supported . exasolution integrates support to run lua java python and gnu r scripts in parallel inside user defined functions udfs within the dbms sql pipeline . see also edit shared nothing architecture column oriented database in memory database sql 2008 r olap i.e. mdx over odbo or xmla business analytics predictive analytics references edit a b c monash c. exasol technical briefing 1 dbms2 august 16 2008 howard p. exasol another data warehousing vendor 2 it analysis june 17 2008 transaction processing performance council tpc h is an ad hoc decision support benchmark 3 tpc benchmarks mark a. beyer donald feinberg roxane edjlali merv adrian magic quadrant for data warehouse database management systems 31 . january 2013 4 gartner research a b c howard p. indetail 5 bloor research august 2008 external links edit official website technical details tpc h benchmark results retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title exasol & oldid 737100640 categories software companies of germany navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 31 august 2016 at 19 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view