SQream DB
SQream is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia. SQream is designed for big data analytics using the Structured Query Language (SQL).
History
SQream is the first product from SQream Technologies Ltd, a company founded in 2010 by Ami Gal and Kostya Varakin in Tel Aviv, Israel.
SQream was first released in 2014 after a partnership with an Orange S.A. in Silicon Valley. The firm claimed Orange S.A. saved $6 million by using SQream in 2014. SQream is aimed at the budget multi-terabyte analytics market, due to its modest hardware requirements and use of compression.
SQream is also the basis for a product named GenomeStack, for querying many DNA sequences simultaneously. A US$7.4M investment of venture capital was announced in June 2015. It is an example of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units, alongside OmniSci and Kinetica.
The firm applied for patents, encompassing parallel execution queries on multi-core processors and speeding up parallel execution on vector processors.
In February 2018, SQream Technologies partnered with Alibaba Group's division Alibaba Cloud to deliver a GPU database service on Alibaba Cloud.
In December 2021, SQream announced that it had acquired no-code data platform Panoply for an undisclosed sum, as part of the push to grow its cloud computing offering.
Software and features
The column-oriented database SQream platform was designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data, for compute-intensive queries. The product claims to improve query performance for very large datasets, over traditional relational database systems.
SQream is designed to run on premise or in the public cloud.