In a few weeks’ time, Exasol will be live at the Tableau On Tour Conference in Berlin (8-10 June 2015) where we will be showing users how you can dramatically speed up data visualisations with a plug-and-play boost from Exasol. Indeed, we will be showcasing Tableau Turbo by Exasol, our solution that sits alongside an […]
Exasol has captured the hearts of many businesses all over the world and together they have ridden waves of success. I have never seen anything more pure in my life. Standing 700 feet above sea level on top of the Cliffs of Moher, on top of nature’s wonder, I looked out over the turquoise Atlantic […]
Learn why testing a product and running your own benchmark is the best move for customers. You may wonder how someone from Exasol can make such a bold statement. Especially when we continue to publish official benchmarks numbers, notably those from the Transaction Processing Performance Council where we show strong leadership in all categories ranging […]
Exasol has experienced extreme growth in 2014, and we are proud of it! Now and again, it’s always nice to stop what you are doing, review what has gone before and take stock. Indeed, I am reminded of a great poem by William Henry Davis called “Leisure” which summons us to do just that: What […]
In the world of fast databases and data analytics, businesses can get tangible value out of data that will help grow your business, be it through new revenue streams, increased customer satisfaction levels or distinct cost savings. Many of us will remember taking part in treasure hunts where we sought to crack a code or solve […]
The name that came up top trumps for us was “The Datanator”. Our “Name the Beast” naming contest has a winner. We’re excited to announce that our call to you lovely people to help us name the “Beast” (aka the Dell PowerEdge R720xd hardware we smashed world TPC-H records on) resulted in a huge response […]
In the recent 2014 run of the TPC-H benchmarks, Exasol managed briefly to break the scoreboard on the TPC website by posting performance benchmarks of over 10 million TPC performance units. Our nearest competitors struggle to get a few percent of that. The most striking figures for me are in the top size categories, the 100 […]
How the “Exasol Beast” is eating up the TPC-H benchmark and scaring the living daylights out of our competitors. We have recently completed a new attempt at the TPC-H benchmark and the results are quite startling, even by our high standards from three years ago when we set the bar already way beyond the reach […]
Exasol can cope with unstructured data using User Defined Functions “Structured data” is the kind of data that you could work with in a (sufficiently large) spreadsheet. There are fixed fields within a record and there’s a data model which defines what fields of data will be stored and how that data will be stored […]
There are four basic features that contribute to Exasol’s speed, which I call the “four degrees of awesome” Exactly how do you make the fastest database in the world? A few years ago I was looking at new technologies for a consultancy company. During the course of this I came across Exasol’s TPC-H benchmark figures. […]