<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
(	O
formerly	O
known	O
as	O
SAP	B-Application
Sybase	I-Application
IQ	I-Application
or	O
Sybase	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
;	O
IQ	O
for	O
Intelligent	O
Query	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
column-based	B-General_Concept
,	O
petabyte	O
scale	O
,	O
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
software	O
system	O
used	O
for	O
business	B-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
,	O
data	O
warehousing	O
,	O
and	O
data	O
marts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Produced	O
by	O
Sybase	B-Application
Inc.	O
,	O
now	O
an	O
SAP	B-Application
company	O
,	O
its	O
primary	O
function	O
is	O
to	O
analyze	O
large	O
amounts	O
of	O
data	O
in	O
a	O
low-cost	O
,	O
highly	O
available	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
is	O
often	O
credited	O
with	O
pioneering	O
the	O
commercialization	O
of	O
column-store	O
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
foundation	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
lies	O
a	O
column	B-General_Concept
store	I-General_Concept
technology	O
that	O
allows	O
for	O
speed	O
compression	O
and	O
ad-hoc	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
has	O
an	O
open	O
interface	O
approach	O
towards	O
its	O
ecosystem	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
is	O
also	O
integrated	O
with	O
SAP	B-Application
's	O
Business	B-General_Concept
Intelligence	I-General_Concept
portfolio	O
of	O
products	O
to	O
form	O
an	O
end-to-end	O
business	O
analytics	O
software	O
stack	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
an	O
integral	O
component	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
's	O
In-Memory	O
Data	O
Fabric	O
Architecture	O
and	O
Data	O
Management	O
Platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
early	O
1990s	O
,	O
Waltham	O
,	O
Massachusetts-based	O
Expressway	O
Technologies	O
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
developed	O
the	O
Expressway	O
103	O
,	O
a	O
column-based	B-General_Concept
,	O
engine	O
optimized	O
for	O
analytics	O
,	O
that	O
would	O
eventually	O
become	O
Sybase	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sybase	B-Application
acquired	O
Expressway	O
and	O
re-introduced	O
the	O
product	O
in	O
1995	O
as	O
IQ	O
Accelerator	O
,	O
then	O
renamed	O
it	O
shortly	O
thereafter	O
to	O
Sybase	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
,	O
giving	O
it	O
version	O
number	O
11.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
offering	O
the	O
IQ	O
product	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
a	O
collection	O
of	O
related	O
technologies	O
often	O
found	O
in	O
a	O
data	O
warehouse	O
(	O
including	O
Sybase	B-Application
Adaptive	I-Application
Server	I-Application
Enterprise	I-Application
,	O
Replication	O
Server	O
,	O
PowerDesigner	B-Application
PowerDesigner	B-Application
,	O
and	O
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
)	O
,	O
Sybase	B-Application
became	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
mainstream	O
companies	O
to	O
acknowledge	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
specialized	O
products	O
for	O
the	O
data	O
warehouse	O
market	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
version	O
12.0	O
,	O
Sybase	B-Application
replaced	O
the	O
loosely	O
coupled	O
query	O
interface	O
from	O
Adaptive	B-Application
Server	I-Application
Enterprise	I-Application
with	O
a	O
tight	O
coupling	O
with	O
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
16	O
brings	O
a	O
re-engineered	O
column	B-General_Concept
store	I-General_Concept
for	O
extreme	O
,	O
petabyte	O
scale	O
,	O
data	O
volumes	O
,	O
and	O
more	O
extreme	O
data	O
compression	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2014	O
,	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
,	O
together	O
with	O
partners	O
BMMsoft	O
,	O
HP	O
,	O
Intel	O
,	O
NetApp	O
,	O
and	O
Red	O
Hat	O
announced	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
largest	O
data	O
warehouse	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
team	O
of	O
engineers	O
from	O
SAP	B-Application
,	O
BMMsoft	O
,	O
HP	O
,	O
Intel	O
,	O
NetApp	O
,	O
and	O
Red	O
Hat	O
,	O
built	O
the	O
data	O
warehouse	O
using	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
and	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
16	O
,	O
with	O
BMMsoft	O
Federated	O
EDMT	O
running	O
on	O
HP	O
DL580	O
servers	O
using	O
Intel	O
Xeon	O
E7-4870	O
processors	O
under	O
Red	O
Hat	O
Enterprise	O
Linux	B-Application
6	O
and	O
NetApp	O
FAS6290	O
and	O
E5460	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
development	O
and	O
testing	O
of	O
the	O
12.1PB	O
data	O
warehouse	O
was	O
conducted	O
by	O
the	O
SAP/Intel	O
Petascale	O
lab	O
in	O
Santa	O
Clara	O
,	O
Calif.	O
,	O
and	O
audited	O
by	O
InfoSizing	O
,	O
an	O
independent	O
Transaction	O
Processing	O
Council	O
certified	O
auditor	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
SP08	O
,	O
the	O
version	O
numbers	O
have	O
been	O
changed	O
to	O
align	O
with	O
and	O
match	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
's	O
version	O
numbers	O
to	O
reflect	O
the	O
product	O
's	O
continuous	O
integration	O
with	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
's	O
new	O
approach	O
streamlines	O
and	O
simplifies	O
Data	O
Warehousing	O
into	O
an	O
In-Memory	O
Data	O
Fabric	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
advent	O
of	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
,	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
has	O
coupled	O
with	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
to	O
deliver	O
a	O
distributed	O
in-memory	O
analytics	O
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
three	O
main	O
applications	O
and	O
use	O
cases	O
which	O
try	O
to	O
capitalize	O
on	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
's	O
strengths	O
concerning	O
scalability	O
and	O
performance	O
as	O
an	O
EDW	O
and	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
processor	O
,	O
while	O
leveraging	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
's	O
in-memory	O
speed	O
for	O
operational	O
reporting	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
scenario	O
,	O
SAP	B-Application
Enterprise	O
Resource	O
Planning	O
(	O
ERP	O
)	O
data	O
goes	O
into	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
which	O
acts	O
as	O
an	O
operational	O
data	O
store	O
for	O
immediate	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Once	O
the	O
data	O
is	O
analyzed	O
it	O
is	O
integrated	O
into	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
via	O
Near-line	O
storage	O
mechanisms	O
(	O
as	O
described	O
above	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
is	O
used	O
as	O
an	O
EDW	O
,	O
it	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
augmented	O
with	O
HANA	O
's	O
in-memory	O
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
case	O
,	O
data	O
flows	O
from	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
to	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
BusinessObjects	O
BI	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
achieve	O
visibility	O
across	O
both	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
a	O
user	O
,	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
looks	O
just	O
like	O
any	O
relational	O
DBMS	O
with	O
a	O
SQL-based	O
language	O
layer	O
accessible	O
via	O
ODBC/JDBC	O
drivers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
inside	O
,	O
Sybase	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
is	O
a	O
column-oriented	B-General_Concept
DBMS	I-General_Concept
,	O
which	O
stores	O
data	O
tables	O
as	O
sections	O
of	O
columns	O
of	O
data	O
rather	O
than	O
as	O
rows	O
of	O
data	O
like	O
most	O
transactional	O
databases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Another	O
advantage	O
is	O
that	O
when	O
indexed	O
correctly	O
,	O
a	O
value	O
that	O
would	O
have	O
to	O
be	O
stored	O
once	O
in	O
each	O
row	O
of	O
data	O
in	O
a	O
traditional	O
database	O
is	O
stored	O
only	O
once	O
,	O
and	O
in	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
,	O
an	O
n-bitindex	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
access	O
the	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additionally	O
,	O
the	O
column-based	B-General_Concept
storage	O
enables	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
to	O
compress	O
data	O
efficiently	O
on	O
the	O
fly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Prior	O
to	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
16	O
,	O
each	O
data	O
page	O
was	O
structured	O
as	O
an	O
array	O
of	O
cells	O
of	O
a	O
fixed	O
size	O
,	O
so	O
all	O
values	O
have	O
the	O
same	O
data	O
type	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
combat	O
storage	O
inefficiency	O
and	O
store	O
variable	O
sized	O
data	O
with	O
minimal	O
wasted	O
space	O
,	O
each	O
page	O
is	O
composed	O
of	O
cells	O
of	O
a	O
variable	O
size	O
that	O
are	O
packed	O
tightly	O
together	O
;	O
the	O
column	B-General_Concept
store	I-General_Concept
architecture	O
supports	O
a	O
variable	O
number	O
of	O
cells	O
per	O
page	O
and	O
various	O
page	O
formats	O
within	O
a	O
column	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
also	O
applies	O
Lempel-Ziv-Welch	O
(	O
LZW	O
)	O
compression	O
algorithms	O
to	O
each	O
data	O
page	O
when	O
it	O
is	O
written	O
to	O
disk	O
,	O
to	O
significantly	O
reduce	O
data	O
volume	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
has	O
a	O
massively	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
processing	I-Operating_System
(	O
MPP	O
)	O
framework	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
shared-everything	O
environment	O
that	O
supports	O
distributed	O
query	O
processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
other	O
products	O
capable	O
of	O
MPP	O
tend	O
to	O
be	O
based	O
on	O
shared-nothing	B-Operating_System
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
downside	O
is	O
that	O
in	O
extreme	O
cases	O
,	O
competition	O
among	O
processors	O
to	O
access	O
a	O
shared	O
pool	O
of	O
storage	O
(	O
usually	O
a	O
storage-area	O
network	O
)	O
,	O
can	O
lead	O
to	O
I/O	B-General_Concept
contention	O
,	O
which	O
affects	O
query	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
the	O
aforementioned	O
storage	O
architecture	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
allows	O
compute	O
and	O
storage	O
layers	O
to	O
scale	O
out	O
independently	O
of	O
each	O
other	O
and	O
also	O
allows	O
these	O
resources	O
to	O
be	O
provisioned	O
on-demand	O
for	O
better	O
utilization	O
without	O
restructuring	O
the	O
underlying	O
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
uses	O
a	O
clustered	O
grid	O
architecture	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
made	O
up	O
of	O
clusters	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
servers	O
,	O
or	O
Multiplex	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Workload	O
balancing	O
is	O
achieved	O
by	O
the	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
query	O
engine	O
through	O
dynamically	O
increasing/decreasing	O
parallelism	O
in	O
response	O
to	O
changes	O
in	O
server	O
activity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
Loading	O
Engine	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
incremental	O
batch	O
,	O
low	O
latency	O
,	O
concurrent	O
loading	O
,	O
and	O
bulk	O
loading	O
(	O
with	O
both	O
client	O
and	O
server	O
data	O
files	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
SAP	B-Application
Replication	O
Server	O
,	O
now	O
enhanced	O
to	O
optimize	O
loads	O
into	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
,	O
transactions	O
are	O
compiled	O
into	O
the	O
fewest	O
set	O
of	O
operations	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
bulk	O
micro-batch	O
loads	O
into	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
are	O
performed	O
,	O
which	O
gives	O
the	O
appearance	O
of	O
real-time	O
,	O
continuous	O
loads	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lastly	O
,	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
introduces	O
a	O
write-optimized	O
,	O
Row	O
Level	O
Versioned	O
(	O
RLV	O
)	O
Delta	O
store	O
which	O
enables	O
high-velocity	O
data	O
loads	O
and	O
fast	O
availability	O
of	O
data	O
to	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
offers	O
query	O
APIs	O
based	O
on	O
pure	O
ANSI	O
SQL	O
standards	O
(	O
with	O
few	O
restrictions	O
)	O
,	O
that	O
include	O
OLAP	O
and	O
full-text	O
search	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
well	O
there	O
are	O
database	B-Application
drivers	I-Application
for	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
programming	O
languages	O
such	O
as	O
JAVA	B-Language
,	O
C/C	O
++m	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
PERL	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Ruby	O
,	O
and	O
ADO.Net	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
is	O
an	O
analytics	O
engine	O
that	O
can	O
query	O
both	O
structured	O
and	O
unstructured	O
data	O
and	O
join	O
the	O
results	O
together	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
introduced	O
a	O
new	O
text	O
index	O
and	O
an	O
SQL	O
“	O
contains	O
”	O
clause	O
to	O
facilitate	O
this	O
by	O
searching	O
for	O
terms	O
within	O
a	O
blob	O
of	O
unstructured	O
text	O
;	O
SAP	B-Application
Sybase	I-Application
's	O
partnerships	O
with	O
vendors	O
allow	O
for	O
various	O
binary	O
forms	O
of	O
text	O
files	O
to	O
be	O
ingested	O
into	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
and	O
text	O
indexes	O
created	O
for	O
them	O
;	O
these	O
text	O
indexes	O
get	O
the	O
data	O
ready	O
for	O
higher	O
level	O
text	O
analysis	O
applications	O
to	O
perform	O
full-text	O
searches	O
within	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
via	O
SELECT	O
statements	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
extensibility	O
framework	O
,	O
called	O
“	O
in-database	O
analytics	O
”	O
enables	O
embedding	O
of	O
analytic	O
functions	O
inside	O
the	O
database	O
engine	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
,	O
moving	O
analytics	O
into	O
the	O
database	O
,	O
instead	O
of	O
to	O
a	O
specialized	O
environment	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
database	O
,	O
a	O
process	O
which	O
is	O
error	O
prone	O
and	O
slower	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pre-built	O
functions	O
are	O
available	O
natively	O
and	O
via	O
partners	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
providing	O
specialized	O
statistical	O
and	O
data	O
mining	O
libraries	O
that	O
plug	O
into	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
framework	O
increases	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
's	O
power	O
to	O
do	O
advance	O
processing	O
and	O
analysis	O
as	O
the	O
data	O
does	O
not	O
have	O
to	O
be	O
moved	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
database	O
into	O
a	O
specialized	O
environment	O
for	O
analytics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Through	O
user	O
defined	O
functions	O
(	O
UDFS	O
)	O
partners	O
can	O
extend	O
the	O
DBMS	O
with	O
custom	O
computations	O
,	O
by	O
providing	O
a	O
specialized	O
statistical	O
and	O
data	O
mining	O
libraries	O
that	O
plug	O
right	O
into	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
to	O
enhance	O
its	O
performance	O
of	O
advanced	O
processing	O
and	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
provides	O
several	O
features	O
,	O
both	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
base	O
product	O
and	O
licensable	O
separately	O
,	O
to	O
help	O
protect	O
the	O
security	O
of	O
the	O
user	O
's	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
part	O
of	O
ILM	O
,	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
allows	O
users	O
to	O
create	O
multiple	O
user	O
DBSpaces	O
(	O
logical	O
units	O
of	O
storage/containers	O
for	O
database	O
objects	O
)	O
for	O
organizing	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
Virtual	O
Backup	O
also	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
quickly	O
backup	O
data	O
,	O
and	O
along	O
with	O
storage	O
replication	O
technology	O
,	O
data	O
is	O
continuously	O
copied	O
so	O
backups	O
can	O
occur	O
quickly	O
and	O
“	O
behind	O
the	O
scenes	O
”	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
claims	O
that	O
disaster	O
recovery	O
is	O
easier	O
with	O
a	O
shared	O
everything	O
approach	O
to	O
MPP	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SAP	B-Application
Sybase	I-Application
PowerDesigner	B-Application
modelling	O
tool	O
enables	O
users	O
to	O
build	O
an	O
ILM	O
model	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
with	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
provides	O
federation	O
with	O
the	O
Hadoop	O
distributed	O
file	O
system	O
(	O
HDFS	O
)	O
,	O
a	O
very	O
popular	O
framework	O
for	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
,	O
so	O
that	O
enterprise	O
users	O
can	O
continue	O
to	O
store	O
data	O
in	O
Hadoop	O
and	O
utilize	O
its	O
benefits	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Client-side	O
federation	O
joins	O
data	O
from	O
IQ	O
and	O
Hadoop	O
at	O
a	O
client	O
application	O
level	O
while	O
ETL	O
federation	O
lets	O
the	O
user	O
load	O
Hadoop	O
data	O
into	O
the	O
column	B-General_Concept
store	I-General_Concept
schemas	O
of	O
IQ	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
Control	O
Center	O
replaces	O
Sybase	B-Application
Central	O
as	O
a	O
Web-Based	O
graphical	O
tool	O
for	O
administration	O
and	O
monitoring	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
Control	O
Center	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
monitoring	O
SAP	B-Application
Sybase	I-Application
servers	O
and	O
resources	O
(	O
node	O
,	O
multiplex	O
)	O
from	O
any	O
location	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
monitoring	O
performance	O
,	O
and	O
spotting	O
usage	O
trends	O
,	O
The	O
web	O
application	O
has	O
a	O
multi-tiered	O
plug-in	O
architecture	O
which	O
is	O
made	O
up	O
of	O
a	O
server	O
and	O
product-based	O
agents	O
that	O
bring	O
SAP	B-Application
Sybase	I-Application
performance	O
back	O
to	O
the	O
Control	O
Center	O
Server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
comes	O
with	O
web-enabled	O
application	O
drivers	O
facilitating	O
access	O
to	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
from	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
Web	O
2.0	O
programming	O
and	O
execution	O
environments	O
(	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
.Net	O
,	O
Ruby	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Federation	O
proxy	O
tables	O
that	O
map	O
to	O
tables	O
in	O
external	O
databases	O
can	O
be	O
created	O
;	O
these	O
are	O
materialized	O
as	O
in-memory	O
tables	O
but	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
interacted	O
with	O
as	O
though	O
they	O
resided	O
within	O
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
also	O
supports	O
plugging	O
in	O
external	O
algorithms	O
written	O
in	O
C++	O
and	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additionally	O
,	O
Sybase	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
also	O
provides	O
drivers	O
for	O
access	O
via	O
languages	O
such	O
as	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Ruby	B-Application
on	I-Application
Rails	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
SAP	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
supports	O
most	O
major	O
operating	O
system	O
platforms	O
,	O
including	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Sybase	B-Application
claims	O
that	O
Sybase	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
is	O
currently	O
installed	O
in	O
over	O
2000	O
customer	O
sites	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
Sybase	B-Application
IQ	I-Application
has	O
been	O
widely	O
used	O
for	O
focused	O
,	O
data-mart-style	O
deployments	O
,	O
it	O
has	O
also	O
been	O
deployed	O
as	O
an	O
enterprise	O
data	O
warehouse	O
.	O
</s>
