SAP IQ ("Intelligent Query"), is a column-based relational database management system designed for business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytical workloads. It employs a column-store architecture to facilitate data compression and ad-hoc query processing.
- Tech Docs
- https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ[02]
- Country of Origin
- US
- Start Year
- 1992
- Former Names
- Expressway 103, SAP Sybase IQ, Sybase IQ
- Acquired By
- Project Type
- Commercial
- Embeds / Uses
- SQL Anywhere
- Inspired By
- Model 204
- License
- Proprietary
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_IQ[03]
SAP IQ ("Intelligent Query"), is a column-based relational database management system designed for business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytical workloads. It employs a column-store architecture to facilitate data compression and ad-hoc query processing.
History
The project started in the early 1990s as "Expressway 103" by a Massachusetts-based startup. After Sybase's acquisition of Expressway in 1994, they rebranded the system to "Sybase IQ". Development continues under SAP.
The system is credited with pioneering the commercialization of column-store databases.
Citations
5 sources- Sybase | SAP sap.com
- SAP IQ | SAP Help Portal | SAP Help Portal sap.com
- SAP IQ - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
- https://twitter.com/SybaseIQ twitter.com
- https://books.google.com/books?id=hRcEAAAAMBAJ&q=Sybase+makes+a+data+warehousing+play+via+acquisition&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=Sybase makes a data warehousing play via acquisition&f=false google.com