SciDB

SciDB
Developer(s) Paradigm4
Initial release 2008
Type Database management system
License AGPL v3[1]
Website www.paradigm4.com
Not to be confused with Scidb: Chess database.

SciDB[2] is an array database designed for multidimensional data management and analytics common to scientific, geospatial, financial, and industrial applications. It is developed by Paradigm4, co-founded by Michael Stonebraker.

History and Characteristics

Michael Stonebraker co-created SciDB where, he claims, arrays are 100 or so times faster than a RDBMS on this class of problem.[3] 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 model, in which each relation supports only one dimension of records.

According to a Strata Conference presentation on SciDB,[4] it natively supports:

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