Logical Information Machines, Inc. (LIM) is a software company based in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, United States. It markets Historis, a
time series
In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Exa ...
database and the Market Information Machine (MIM), a database that is built around Historis, and includes data and a near-English query language.
The Market Information Machine (MIM) was invented in 1988 by
Tony Kolton
Tony may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer
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, President and CEO of LIM, Danette Chimenti, LIM Director of Strategic Research and
Ruben Gamboa
Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Re'uven), meaning "behold, a son". In the Bible, Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob.
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, LIM Senior Technical Consultant. Danette sits on the Board of Directors and Ruben is on the Technical Advisory Board for LIM.
Historis, unlike a
relational database
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...
, is optimized and designed to handle the large storage issues and fast data retrieval speeds required by time-series data (real-time, intraday, daily, weekly, monthly).
In December 2009,
Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar, Inc. is an American financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and was founded by Joe Mansueto in 1984. It provides an array of investment research and investment management services.
With operations in 29 countries, ...
announced that it had agreed to buy LIM for $50.5 million.
See also
*
Time series database
A time series database (TSDB) is a software system that is optimized for storing and serving time series through associated pairs of time(s) and value(s). In some fields, ''time series'' may be called profiles, curves, traces or trends. Several ea ...
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.lim.com/
Ruben Gamboa LIM Senior Technical Consultant
Software companies based in Illinois
Companies based in Chicago
Defunct software companies of the United States