Founded in 2000 when authors realized there will be a need for something to process huge amounts of data in near future. From another perspective, it was clear that the cost of memory will continue to decrease and it will be afordable for many customers to use an in-memory analytics.
Exasol’s name is composed of two parts: EXA, originating from the Greek language denoting a unit prefix factor of 1018, while SOL stands for solution.