SciDB is a
column-oriented database management system
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(DBMS) designed for multidimensional data management and analytics common to scientific, geospatial, financial, and industrial applications. It is developed by Paradigm4 and co-created by
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is a computer scientist specializing in database systems. Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational databa ...
.
History
Stonebraker claims that arrays are 100 times faster in SciDB than in a
relational DBMS
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on a class of problems. It is swapping rows and columns for mathematical arrays that put fewer restrictions on the data and can work in any number of dimensions unlike the conventionally widely used
relational database management system
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 ...
model, in which each
relation
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supports only one dimension of records.
A 2011 conference presentation on SciDB promoted it as "not
Hadoop
Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage an ...
".
Marilyn Matz became chief executive Paradigm4 in 2014.
See also
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Comparison of object database management systems
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See also
* Comparison of object–relational database management systems
*Comparison of ...
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Comparison of structured storage software
Structured storage is computer storage for structured data, often in the form of a distributed database. Computer software formally known as structured storage systems include Apache Cassandra, Google's Bigtable and Apache HBase
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References
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External links
SciDB website
Data management
Distributed data stores
Document-oriented databases
Distributed computing architecture
Free database management systems
Structured storage
NoSQL
Software using the GNU AGPL license