Sybase Adaptive Server IQ is an implementation of a relational database particularly well suited for a low maintenance, high scalability
DataWarehouse. High performance for
StarSchema is achieved without table space partitioning or clumsy indexing. Data is stored in
ColumnOrder rather than
RowOrder and so the amount of space per row is dramatically reduced.
See
http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/sybaseiq
It sounds awfully similar to Kdb (see KayLanguage), though much cheaper for commercial use.
Does this product still exist?