Sybase's IQ database management system has dominated Winter Corporation's TopTen award for Decision Support Systems.
The database vendor won the grand prize in the Windows category, 22 of 80 awards in the Decision Support Systems categories and beat Teradata in every category bar Obesity.
"We collected more awards than Teradata, DB2, Oracle and Microsoft, which shows that customers are understanding the need for efficiency more than obesity," says Estelle de Beer, BI product manager at Sybase SA.
Winter Corporation provides services in research, consulting and education. "We help users and vendors to understand their opportunities; select their database and data warehouse platforms; define and measure the value of their strategies, architectures and products; plan, architect and design their implementations; and manage their scalability, performance and availability issues," the company states. "Our focus is databases near, at and beyond the frontier of database scalability."
The company's TopTen award is aimed at recognising database vendors whose achievements have advanced the boundaries of database size and power. The programme also discloses the products, platforms and architectures that support the leading implementations.
Vendors can only enter the awards based on commercial implementations of their technology with a minimum of 500GB of data for Windows NT platforms and one terabyte of data for all other platforms.
"The results show that Sybase IQ is extremely capable of managing data warehouses containing multiple terabytes of data which, in the end, significantly benefits its customers by saving them time and money," says Richard Winter, president of Winter Corporation.
Award categories included database size, normalised data volume and number of rows, records or objects.
Sybase clinched three of the top 10 positions in the category: Database Size, Windows, with its implementation at ComScore Networks, with 8 852GB of data in a clustered Dell and EMC environment coming in first. It also took the top three positions for Number of Rows, Windows, with 61 360 million rows in a clustered HP and EMC environment.
The database vendor also took four of the top 10 positions in Normalised Data Volume, Unix with its implementation at Health Insurance Review Agency, with 29 299GB of normalised data volume. It also took four of the top 10 positions in Normalised Data Volume, All Environments, again with its implementation at Health Insurance Review Agency.
Sybase grasped second place in Number of Rows, Unix, and Number of Rows, All Environments, with an implementation at Nielsen Media Research, with 250 918 million rows in a clustered Sun environment.
The company's IQ database management system was placed eighth overall in the Obesity category with its Health Insurance Review Agency implementation.
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