For example, end of day operations in a bank will use a data warehouse database.

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Francisco said it has the largest library of database analytical functions in the data warehouse market, said Francisco, and can scale across the terabyte or petabytes running on the system.

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In a data warehouse, the main mode of access is a relational database storage paradigm, in which the structure of the data was predetermined at the time the database was designed.

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While a traditional database, even a very big one, allows for only the simplest, most repetitive queries, a data warehouse is multidimensional, allowing for data to be analyzed using hundreds of variables simultaneously.

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