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I work for www.sqream.com, and our main product is SQream DB.

SQream DB is a GPU SQL database for analytics. Everything was written in-house - from the SQL parser all the way down to the storage layer. We're designed to deal with sizes from a few terabytes to hundreds of terabytes, and we use the GPU to do most of the work. It is the compiler (written in Haskell) however, that decides about specific optimizations and deals with generating the query plan.

Our SQL parser and typechecker is actually BSD3 licensed, if it's interesting: https://github.com/jakewheat/hssqlppp



> www.sqream.com

I don't like having to be that guy, but your landing page hijacks scrolling (which always causes problems; I noticed first because it broke ctrl-scroll zooming), downloads a 30MB video in a loop, forever, takes a significant amount of CPU even when the video isn't in view and the tab is not active, and despite having almost no content manages to take far more memory than any other non-email tab I have open.


Our website is... Yeah... I know... :/

I've passed on your comments in any case, but know that we're in the process of rebuilding the website from scratch.


Any chance SQream DB will be open sourced or a demo version? It seems every Column based GPU DB I find is behind a paywall and targeting enterprise levels.


I think it's unlikely at this point...

We too are currently during some large projects for enterprises...

We will be releasing a community version on AWS and Azure in the near future which should be cheap or free, other than the instance cost on the respective cloud provider.




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