Exasol Cloud

Exasol is a technology provider headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 2000, the company operates mainly in Europe and the United States with the majority of customers coming from German-speaking countries. Sustainably accelerating growth in the United States plays an important role in Exa-sol’s ambitions. Global companies including T-Mobile, Dell and Verizon rely on Exasol’s software to tackle the challenges of slow query times, fast data growth and the rising operational costs of data envi-ronments. Organizations of various sizes and industries use Exasol, which has a broad network of 100+ implementation and technology partners. The vendor works with BI implementation partners, systems integrators, resellers and OEMs. Exasol works closely with its community, which develops the integration capabilities of the database based on a free open-source version of the Exasol database on GitHub.

Exasol Espresso is a database designed for high-performance analytics (reporting, advanced analytics and ML, real-time KPIs and dashboards). It can be deployed as a BI acceleration layer, data warehouse or as a data mart. From a technical perspective, it is a relational, column-based, massively parallel-processing (MPP) enabled, in-memory database. It can be deployed as an analytical database in the customer’s cloud account, as a SaaS offering on premises, or on the public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform).

Exasol sees itself as the highest-performing database for analytical workloads and proves this with TPC-H benchmarks. It offers 3 optimization levels and can be used as an accelerator for BI or analytics, as a logical data platform with a central access layer and as a modernized enterprise data warehouse. In ad-dition, it provides built-in machine learning capabilities where models run directly in the database in any language, thus enabling BI users to access deeper insights through Exasol’s data science integration.

The database itself is characterized by its strong query performance, self-optimization algorithms and a plug-in concept that simplifies the integration and functional expansion of the database. Exasol focuses on productivity, cost savings and flexibility and provides simple licensing and engagement models.