Radian itself is one of the fastest, fully-parallel database engines ever created. Guaranteed to keep up with even the fastest enterprise DBMS you use to work with data in-place.

But you don't need an external DBMS: you can easily host large, complex projects and applications entirely within Radian on your desktop. Radian effortlessly cascades and nests hierarchies of projects with zero pass-through performance hit, so a single Radian project can encompass terabytes of data while reaching out to exabytes of data in external servers. On your desktop. Today.

"First of all - Radian Studio! Wow! It is really as fast as advertised." - Forum post.

Radian is so much faster than any traditional spatial file formats that you'll probably want to upgrade your inventory of spatial files to use Radian as your data store. Once transferred into Radian storage a 100 GB image pops open instantly. Large vector data sets that absolutely crush traditional GIS applications pop open in seconds as well.

See Radian technology in action Watch the Gulf Bathymetry YouTube video of Manifold Viewer opening a project file in 1/10th second that the US Government website providing the data warned will take ESRI software 30 minutes to open in the equivalent ESRI native format. That's thousands of times faster for Radian. Viewer effortlessly hill shades and styles and re-projects on the fly 7.5 GB of ultra-high resolution bathymetry data for the Gulf of Mexico. Re-projection can take hours in other packages but Viewer and Radian do it on the fly, instantly.

Apply the effortless, easy power of Radian point-and-click dialogs or the infinite power of automatically parallel Radian SQL. Radian unleashes the full power of all the CPU cores in your system and automatically launches massively parallel computations using thousands of available GPU cores for supercomputer computational performance unmatched by any other non-parallel GIS or spatial engineering tool. This isn't marketing hype: calculations that take minutes without Radian can often be done in a second or two in Radian. Don't settle for distributed data storage without parallel computation and don't settle for parallelism that requires custom coding by experts. Insist on the real thing: automatic, parallel computation with no parallel coding required. Radian is the real deal: Nothing else comes close.

Built upon manycore parallel CPU and massively parallel GPU DBMS infrastructure, Radian includes a sophisticated SQL query engine with a very high degree of modularity. Big tasks get split into small tasks, which get sent to different computation nodes using DAG, Directed Acyclic Graph, analytics. But Radian goes much further than use of homogenous nodes. Some of those nodes, potentially many thousands of nodes, can be GPGPU cores, and those GPGPU cores can be different types of cores from different GPUs. Some of those nodes, also potentially thousands but more likely only a few dozen or few hundred, can be CPU cores. Computational nodes also can be external databases like PostgreSQL. The query engine will split the work between any and all such nodes so that they run in parallel.

See Radian in action Watch the Triangulate 5 Million Points YouTube video of Radian previewing in one second a triangulation of over five million points, and then writing out the triangulation as a new drawing with over ten million areas in three minutes. Other GIS software takes from well over an hour for that to even more than a day. Download the data set in shapefile format and try it in any other GIS. Nothing else comes close to one second.

All that parallelism happens automatically with no need for any parallel coding or manual setup of tasks. Write the SQL you already know and Radian executes it as if a team of experts had parallelized it for you. No need for weeks or months of scary effort that older tools require.

"Our Hadoop project was successful but totally unnecessary in terms of what it took to stand up. I am planning to do some work with the guys in [Europe] and the thought of even reconfiguring another Hadoop implementation gives me nightmares. Hence, my interest in building a high-performance Windows based computer for Radian. " - Radian User.

Radian's modern technology delivers the most sophisticated spatial analytics in GIS or DBMS. Legacy packages have legacy limitations, such as separate layers or data sets for polygons, lines and points or tedious preparation to assure no overlaps for spatial overlays. Radian provides a rich selection of spatial engineering tools, both point-and-click templates as well as massively complete SQL functions, that automatically handle any topology, no matter how strange, and simultaneously work with mixed polygons, lines and points with automatic blending of mixed database values and mixed projections as well. No other spatial data tool at any price can handle such difficult topological situations automatically.

See Radian technology in action Watch the Maryland LiDAR REST Server YouTube video showing the LiDAR data set illustrated above. Try it yourself with Manifold Viewer.