SAND CDBMS traces its roots to developments by Nucleus International Corporation research and eventual patent issued to, among others, Edward L. Glaser[1] on “Bit string compressor with boolean operation processing capability.”[2] Originally encoded on firmware, the application is now completely software based.
This architecture exhibits the following characteristics: Platform agnostic, SAND CDBMS runs on 64 bit Windows or the following 64 bit Linux/Unix environments: HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux and Sun Solaris.
There are multiple data manipulation functions and commands available, but all internal structure optimizations are automatically managed by the database engine.
While data load performance can be slower than row based databases, it is mitigated by not having to build any indexes or run post-load administration routines once complete.
A core feature of SAND CDBMS is its support of “virtual” mounting of a database.