It achieves remarkable levels of search performance by eliminating the need for painfully slow sequential reads of the database and by minimizing database tuning, so both predictable and unpredictable queries are now fast. Most companies see information as the lifeblood of their organization. They must take corporate data and turn that information into knowledge and knowledge into action. In general, database access methods have remained the same for the last 30 years. Although CPU's and disk drives have become substantially faster, database sizes and search requirements have outpaced these technologies so database searches are still often slow.
Speed is the ultimate weapon in today's markets.
It's the key success factor to deliver top customer service, power a web site with fresh content, or analyze historical data or even transactional data as it occurs. Database Tuning Standard databases excel at answering predictable questions. The problem with this approach is that it is a never-ending task, since new questions are always being discovered or thought of and needing to be tuned. Their reasons for concern are straightforward. Since these queries are unanticipated, they are not optimized or tuned, that is, they do not utilize native indexes.