SAP has detailed the additional ingredients now found in SAP Sybase IQ 16 in pictorial form.

For those who are familiar with earlier versions of Sybase IQ, here are the new features added to from SAP Sybase IQ 15.

Performance enhancements: The column store engine has been enhanced with extreme compression capabilities that improve I/O rates and reduce the amount of data to be stored on disk.

 
High-speed data loading: High-performance data loading ingests large amounts of data faster than ever — from terabytes to petabytes — making big data available to applications and people faster.

Improved scalability: Key improvements maintain high performance and efficiency for the growing volume of unpredictable, user-driven analytic workloads.

Data protection: Administrators have further options for protecting the security of enterprise systems.

Heightened availability: Enhancements help ensure that enterprise data is always available to business-critical analytics and dashboards.

Analyst comments were made at the time of the launch...

"This latest release of the SAP Sybase IQ product line, now fully integrated into the overall SAP strategic direction, continues the vibrant innovation that has been its hallmark with technology for handling petabyte scale data," said Carl Olofson of IDC.

"One such innovation includes the ability to make new data available as it is ingested so users can query it as it is mapped to columnar structures. This eliminates what had often become a bottleneck in processing large data warehouses. With this capability, SAP Sybase IQ should enable users to take full advantage of the ever-growing volume of new business data."

SAP's Vishal Sikka commented, "SAP Sybase IQ 16 is integrated with SAP HANA platform and provides flexible and logical data management options to meet unique business and technical requirements. SAP Sybase IQ accommodates mixed workloads and large numbers of concurrent users. The software runs on a wide variety of commodity hardware platforms, supporting lower total ownership costs for companies that rely on data-driven decisions and processes for a competitive edge."