Exasol

Exasol is a high-performance, in-memory, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical database management system. Designed for extreme speed, it specializes in handling petabytes of data for complex business intelligence, data analytics, and reporting workloads. Its architecture focuses on…

Key facts

First appeared
2005
Category
database
Problem solved
Traditional disk-based relational databases and early data warehousing solutions struggled significantly with the performance requirements for real-time analytics on ever-growing, terabyte-to-petabyte scale datasets. Exasol was created to eliminate these bottlenecks, enabling businesses to run complex analytical queries and generate reports in seconds or minutes, rather than hours or days, thereby fostering faster, more agile decision-making.
Platforms
On-premises (bare metal, virtual machines), Containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Private cloud, Public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

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Notable users

  • Adidas
  • T-Mobile
  • Dell
  • Zalando
  • Siemens
  • PwC
  • Lufthansa
  • OBI