Being Smart about the CPU Cache

Our technology is developed as a columnar database which slices and stores information as columns rather than as rows (relational database). This capability can pull a column on the disk without pulling the entire table, which is extremely efficient for analytics as most people run queries using only a few columns of data, no matter how big the data set.

For example, if you’re joining a dozen tables with 500 columns, but for a specific analysis you only need 3 columns, sales by customer and by product, Sisense loads only a fraction of the data. Since only the information you need is loaded, columnar operations run 50-100 times faster than with a relational database – making it the perfect technology for BI projects.

In addition, the columnar database is optimized for compression allowing Sisense to minimize the amount of data that moves across the memory. The result: Sisense gives an additional performance boost to run queries at record-breaking speed.