Logical Information Machines

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Logical Information Machines (LIM) is a software company based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It markets Historis, a time series database and the Market Information Machine (MIM), a database that is built around Historis, and includes data and a near-English query language.[1]

The Market Information Machine (MIM) was invented in 1988 by ,[2] President and CEO of LIM, Danette Chimenti, LIM Director of Strategic Research and , LIM Senior Technical Consultant. Danette sits on the Board of Directors and Ruben is on the Technical Advisory Board for LIM.

Historis, unlike a relational database, is optimized and designed to handle the large storage issues and fast data retrieval speeds required by time-series data (real-time, intraday, daily, weekly, monthly).

In December 2009, Morningstar, Inc. announced that it had agreed to buy LIM for $50.5 million.[3]

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  1. ^ Kadlec, Daniel (February 15, 1996). "History lesson has dismal conclusion". USA Today. McLean, Va. pp. 03.B. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  2. ^ United States Patent: 5778357
  3. ^ Stynes, Tess (December 11, 2009). "Morningstar To Buy Market-Data Provider Logical Information Machines". Dow Jones Newswires. online.wsj.com. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2010.

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