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All types of businesses and organizations requiring a solution to query their data directly where it is stored
About IBM Cloud SQL Query
Serverless, interactive querying for analyzing data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. Query your data directly where it is stored, there's no ETL, no databases, and no infrastructure to manage. IBM Cloud SQL Query uses Apache Spark, an open-source, fast, extensible, in-memory data processing engine optimized for low latency and ad hoc analysis of data. No ETL or schema definition needed to enable SQL queries. Analyze data where it sits in IBM Cloud Object Storage using our query editor and REST API. Run as many queries as you need; with pay-per-query pricing, you pay only for the data scan. Compress or partition data to drive savings and performance. IBM Cloud SQL Query is highly available and executes queries using compute resources across multiple facilities. IBM Cloud SQL Query supports a variety of data formats such as CSV, JSON and Parquet, and allows for standard ANSI SQL.
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$5.00/Terabyte-Month
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IBM
Founded: 1911
United States
www.ibm.com/cloud/sql-query
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