Exasol is a high‑performance analytical database designed for extremely fast execution of complex queries over large data volumes. Its architecture is built on in‑memory processing, columnar storage, data compression, and massively parallel execution, enabling organizations to accelerate analytical workloads and significantly reduce query response times.
Exasol is optimised for environments where speed, efficiency, and reliability are critical. It supports seamless integration with a wide range of BI tools and ETL/ELT platforms, and can operate on‑premises or in hybrid deployments. This makes it an excellent fit for regulated industries and data‑sovereignty‑focused environments that require both high performance and strong control over data.
Additional strengths include minimal administrative overhead, linear scalability, and the ability to extend analytical workloads with user‑defined functions (UDFs) for advanced processing and AI/ML use cases. These capabilities enable organisations to extract greater value from their data while maintaining a cost‑efficient, future‑proof architecture.
Key Advantages
- Exceptional performance for real‑time analytics and demanding BI workloads, powered by an in‑memory, columnar, MPP architecture optimised for high‑speed query execution.
- AI and GenAI readiness: Advanced analytics and machine learning can be executed directly inside the database through user‑defined functions (UDFs) in Python, R, or Java — ideal for powering modern AI pipelines, including LLM‑based workloads and RAG architectures.
- Low total cost of ownership (TCO) thanks to an optimised engine design, highly efficient resource usage, and minimal administrative overhead, supported by built‑in self-optimising capabilities.
- Seamless integration with all leading BI tools, ETL/ELT platforms, and AI/ML environments, ensuring smooth interoperability across the entire analytics stack.
- Flexible, non‑disruptive scalability, allowing systems to grow with business needs, on‑premises or in hybrid environments, while maintaining consistent performance and reliability.
Trusted by Experts
BARC: The Data Management Survey 24
For the fourth consecutive year, Exasol has achieved outstanding rankings in The Data Management Survey 24, conducted by BARC (Business Application Research Center). According to the survey, Exasol received above-average ratings across several criteria: Performance: 95% of surveyed users rated it as excellent or good. Reliability & Support: 91% gave the same high marks to both platform reliability and vendor support. Compared to other data management tools, Exasol’s ratings are significantly higher across the board.
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Telekom Slovenije
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The implementation of Exasol in-memory database started early in 2017. With the help of CRMT experts Telekom Slovenije implemented the solution in a single day and initially loaded it with one billion records within the week though it started data collection from the “flat” files. CRMT also carried successful integration of Exasol with our big data environment and other applications – Tableau, Phython and R what enabled Telekom Slovenije to take maximum advantage of their current infrastructure.
Learn moreCRMT has been a regional sales and implementation partner for the Exasol analytical database since 2016.