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| Developer(s) | SQream Technologies Ltd. |
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| Initial release | 2014 |
| Stable release | 2021.2 [1] / 13 September 2021 |
| Written in | CUDA, C++, Haskell [2] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | Linux |
| Type | RDBMS |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | sqream |
SQream is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia. SQream is designed for big data analytics using the Structured Query Language (SQL). [3]
SQream is the first product from SQream Technologies Ltd, founded in 2010 by Ami Gal and Kostya Varakin in Tel Aviv, Israel. [4]
SQream was first released in 2014 [5] after a partnership with an Orange S.A. in Silicon Valley. [6] [7] The company claimed Orange S.A. saved $6 million by using SQream in 2014. [8] [9] SQream is aimed at the budget multi-terabyte analytics market, due to its modest hardware requirements and use of compression. [10]
SQream is also the basis for a product named GenomeStack, for querying many DNA sequences simultaneously. [11] [12] A US$7.4M investment of venture capital was announced in June 2015. [13] It is an example of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units, alongside Omnisci and Kinetica. [14]
The company applied for patents, encompassing parallel execution queries on multi-core processors and speeding up parallel execution on vector processors. [15] [16] [17]
In February 2018, SQream Technologies partnered with Alibaba group's Alibaba Cloud to deliver a GPU Database solution on Alibaba Cloud. [18]
In December 2021, SQream announced that it had acquired no-code data platform Panoply for an undisclosed sum, as part of the push to grow its cloud offering. [19]
The column-oriented database SQream platform was designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data, for compute-intensive queries. The product claims to improve query performance for very large datasets, over traditional relational database systems.
SQream is designed to run on premise or in the public cloud. [20]
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