I saw a customer asking about Exasol recently, which is an in-memory, columnar database. I know nothing about it, and it might work great, but we don't support it. I didn't think much of it, as I'm sure the customer has a reason for choosing this platform.

Later, however, I wondered if this was a good idea. Another customer had inquired about Knack, which I had never heard of either. Not only that, it's an online database that appears to assemble its "tables" from data stored in other systems. Strange, but I'm sure it works well for some companies, especially those without many software developers.

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