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)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Adidas
- T-Mobile
- Dell
- Zalando
- Siemens
- PwC
- Lufthansa
- OBI