Sybase IQ

Sybase IQ is a highly optimized analytics server designed specifically to deliver superior performance for mission-critical business intelligence, analytics and data warehousing solutions on any standard hardware and operating system.

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Features & Benefits

The pioneering column-based architecture in Sybase IQ has been proven in the most challenging real-world reporting and analytic workloads, effectively handling large volumes of ad hoc queries and hundreds of concurrent users with ease.

Sybase IQ - The Smarter Choice [10:24]

Delivers faster results for report acceleration, data mining and predictive analytics	The leading column-oriented analytics server: 10x to 100x faster than conventional transactional databases Architected to support heavy ad hoc query usage and large numbers of concurrent users
Offers best price-performance in the industry	Data compression algorithms reduce data storage volumes by greater than 70 percent Superior manageability reduces administrative cost by 75 percent Rapid deployment enables quick ROI
Provides open, flexible architecture	Supports virtually all hardware and OS configurations Independent compute power and storage capacity provide scalability—at a reasonable cost

Sybase IQ is a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS

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Why is Sybase Better?

The Sybase Advantage

Sybase IQ	Column-oriented architecture accelerates complex queries and reduces storage requirement Architected to handle large numbers of concurrent users Open architecture with flexible scalability using commodity hardware Enterprise-class functionality and strong track record in analytics
Traditional Databases	Designed to handle transactions, not analytics Poor reporting and analytics performance with traditional OLTP architecture Requires numerous indexes, summaries and aggregates, resulting in data bloat and necessitating significant administrative overhead
Appliances	Hardware-based brute force approach Customers are locked into a proprietary architecture which requires sizable investment and ongoing costs Only scales in monolithic units Weaker performance with heavy concurrent usage
Alternative Column-Based Solutions	Lacking in product maturity Not enterprise-class: deficiencies in mixed workload handling, query optimization, security, and disaster recovery functionality Few customers and underdeveloped product ecosystem