Compare to Relational Databases
When it comes to databases, one size doesn’t fit all.
Paradigm4 is an analytical database – not a data warehouse, not a business-intelligence database, and not a transactional database.
Conventional databases have the wrong data model. Machine-generated data, scientific data, and data with spatial or temporal ordering do not fit neatly into a relational table, leading to inefficient storage and poor analytics performance.
And conventional databases are missing critical functionality like data versioning and provenance that support reproducing and auditing results.
Paradigm4′s multi-dimensional array data model is a natural match for complex data like genetic sequencing data, sensor data, financial data and geospatial data. And since Paradigm4 is an all-in-one database and analytics platform, you don’t have to extract, reformat, and export your data to a standalone math package.
Paradigm4 is designed from the ground up for large-scale advanced analytics activities:
- Provides automated, transparent support for massively distributed data sets.
- Accelerates array operations by 10-100x because data is stored natively in an array format.
- Natively integrates big analytics directly with data management.
- Records data provenance by keeping the raw data, the derived data, and the data derivation.
- Supports reproducing and auditing of results because data is never overwritten, only updated



