Various applications such as data science, advanced analytics, predictive analytics, real time ad-hoc reporting, BI, and logical warehouse can be incorporated on top of the EXASOL in-memory database to improve performance. By combining in-memory technology, columnar compression and storage, and massively parallel processing, the database achieves fast performance with linear scalability. The key features and benefits include support for Hadoop, integration of advanced in-memory analytics, and use of data integration tools via ODBC, JDBC, .NET, as well as a JSON-based web socket API.