SAND CDBMS Columnar Database Overview
SAND’s Columnar Database is the world’s leading column-oriented data management system (CDBMS). SAND’s unique patented technology, built in close collaboration with our customers over the last fifteen years, delivers a proven combination of large data set management, support for thousands of users, and complex analysis producing real-time operational information. This combination of data, users and analytics ensures that SAND can deliver unprecedented results. The SAND CDBMS Columnar Database is:
- Fast, providing immediate access to data
- Scalable, handling the largest user populations, biggest data sets, and most complex analytics
- Secure, with advanced encryption and data privacy options
- Performant, offering real-time responses from massively parallel architecture
- Open, supporting most hardware platforms, operating systems, and BI tools
- Usable, offering load-and-go, 24×7 operation, self-management, independent update, and Time Travel navigation.
The first generation of columnar databases focused on orienting data in columns rather than rows, compressing data to reduce the size of the data footprint and speeding query performance. SAND started building the best CDBMS available today by initially delivering a columnar database using tokenization, bit array encoding and compression, and is building upon this foundation with Massively Parallel Processing architectures and support for options and extensions including:
- Advanced Data Security
- Advanced Text Search
- Data Transform ELT
- Nearline for IBM DB2
- Nearline for Microsoft SQL Server
- Nearline for Oracle
- Nearline for SAP BW
- Nearline for SAS
- Vertically Integrated Search
SAND CDBMS dramatically increases user productivity while reducing costs and management complexity. A SAND solution brings the following benefits:
- Delivers insights from data impossible with other technologies, supporting iterative analysis to solve complex problems
- Stores and administers all your enterprise’s non-volatile data at a small fraction of current costs
- Enables access to any required data in record time, with reductions in administration and hardware costs
- Retains data for every transaction, making you responsive to regulatory and analytical requirements
- Maximizes the value of your current IT infrastructure.