Sybase IQ Multiplex

Sybase IQ Multiplex (IQ-M) is a relational database aimed at data warehousing environments and, particularly, at very large data warehouses. What distinguishes IQ-M from its principal competitors is that it is predicated upon a column-based approach rather than the row-based approach that is traditional for relational databases. This provides a number of very significant advantages within a query environment, not least in terms of performance and scalability. Specifically, IQ-M installations will normally offer orders of magnitude improvements in query performance (especially where those queries are complex or require large table scans) while requiring reduced hardware resources. In other words it provides (much) better performance for less money.

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