Sybase IQ Design and Purpose

Sybase IQ is a high-performance decision support server designed specifically for data warehousing.

This cross-platform product runs on several popular Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms.

Sybase IQ is part of the Adaptive Server® family that includes Adaptive Server® Enterprise for enterprise transaction and mixed workload environments and SQL Anywhere®, a small footprint version of Adaptive Server often used for mobile and occasionally connected computing.

• Sybase Database Architecture
  Sybase database architecture provides a common code base for Sybase IQ and SQL Anywhere, with workload optimized data stores.
• Rapid Access to Many Data Sources
  Sybase IQ can integrate data from diverse sources—not just IQ databases, but also SQL Anywhere and ASE databases, as well as non-Sybase databases and flat files.
• Data Warehousing and Sybase IQ
  Data warehouses are collections of data designed to allow business analysts to analyze information.