SciDB

SciDB is a column-oriented database management system (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.

SciDB

Developer(s)	Paradigm4
Initial release	2008
Type	Database management system
License	AGPL v3[1]
Website	www.paradigm4.com

History

Stonebraker claims that arrays are 100 times faster in SciDB than in a relational DBMS on a class of problems.^[2] 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.

A 2011 conference presentation on SciDB promoted it as "not Hadoop".^[3] Marilyn Matz became chief executive Paradigm4 in 2014.^[4]

See also

• Comparison of object database management systems
• Comparison of structured storage software