Exasol

We have had our annual conference Xperience in Berlin again – it was an amazing event with a packed agenda full of customer success stories and technical news. This year at the Umspannwerk.

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One nice and easy way to make yourself familiar with Exasol – the leading In-Memory Analytic Database – is the Community Edition. It’s free and can be downloaded here as a virtual machine running on VirtualBox.

A good description how to install the Community Edition can be found here.

There’s an Exasol SQL Client called EXAplus. You can use it as GUI, then it looks like this:

Exasol is the name of a company based in Nuremberg, Germany and the name of its major product: An in-memory analytic database.

That database leads the recent TPC-H benchmarks, delivering outstanding performance while running on commodity hardware.

Technically, Exasol is a clustered RDBMS using a shared nothing architecture. Availability is achieved with spare nodes, like in this diagram: