<s>
SciDB	B-Operating_System
is	O
a	O
column-oriented	B-General_Concept
database	I-General_Concept
management	O
system	O
(	O
DBMS	O
)	O
designed	O
for	O
multidimensional	O
data	O
management	O
and	O
analytics	O
common	O
to	O
scientific	O
,	O
geospatial	O
,	O
financial	O
,	O
and	O
industrial	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Stonebraker	O
claims	O
that	O
arrays	O
are	O
100	O
times	O
faster	O
in	O
SciDB	B-Operating_System
than	O
in	O
a	O
relational	O
DBMS	O
on	O
a	O
class	O
of	O
problems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
swapping	O
rows	O
and	O
columns	O
for	O
mathematical	O
arrays	O
that	O
put	O
fewer	O
restrictions	O
on	O
the	O
data	O
and	O
can	O
work	O
in	O
any	O
number	O
of	O
dimensions	O
unlike	O
the	O
conventionally	O
widely	O
used	O
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
model	O
,	O
in	O
which	O
each	O
relation	B-Language
supports	O
only	O
one	O
dimension	O
of	O
records	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
2011	O
conference	O
presentation	O
on	O
SciDB	B-Operating_System
promoted	O
it	O
as	O
"	O
not	O
Hadoop	B-Application
"	O
.	O
</s>
