SQream is the first product from SQream Technologies Ltd, a company founded in 2010 by Ami Gal and Kostya Varakin inTel Aviv, Israel.[4]
SQream was first released in 2014[5] after a partnership with anOrange S.A. inSilicon Valley.[6][7]The firm claimedOrange S.A. saved $6 million by using SQream in 2014.[8][9]SQream is aimed at the budget multi-terabyte analytics market, due to its modest hardware requirements and use of compression.[10]
In February 2018, SQream Technologies partnered withAlibaba Group's divisionAlibaba Cloud to deliver a GPU database service on Alibaba Cloud.[18]
In December 2021, SQream announced that it had acquired no-code data platform Panoply for an undisclosed sum, as part of the push to grow itscloud computing offering.[19]
Thecolumn-oriented database SQream platform was designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data, for compute-intensive queries. The product claims to improve query performance for very large datasets, over traditional relational database systems.
SQream is designed to run on premise or in the public cloud.[20]