What is Sybase IQ?
Sybase IQ is an analytical database management system optimized for data warehousing, analytics, and business intelligence. It utilizes a column-oriented storage model designed to provide higher performance for analytic queries while using lower storage space compared to row-oriented databases.
Key features and capabilities of Sybase IQ include:
- Column-oriented storage and vectorized query execution for faster analytic query performance
- Advanced data compression to minimize storage requirements
- In-database analytics with support for statistical functions, machine learning models, text analytics, etc.
- Scalability to handle very large data volumes in the multi-petabyte range
- Parallel query execution and multiprocessing to leverage multiple CPUs/servers
- Data integration and ETL (extract, transform, load) utilities for populating the database
- Visualization, reporting, and BI tools for data analysis
Sybase IQ excels in analytics for data warehousing workloads. It can effectively store and analyze high volumes of business data for purposes like reporting, dashboards, predictive analytics, data mining, and more. The columnar storage provides compression and performance benefits especially for analytic queries.
JasperReports, Pentaho, Sisense, ClickHouse, GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric, Cloudera CDH, HortonWorks Data Platform, Google Cloud Dataproc, Greenplum HD, Platfora, KiniMetrix, IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, Amazon EMR are some alternatives to Sybase IQ.