Editing SPSS (section)

==={{Visible anchor|SCSS}} - Conversational / Columnar SPSS===
'''SCSS''' was a software product intended for online use of IBM mainframes.
<ref>{{cite book
|title=SCSS: A User's Guide to the SPSS Conversational Statistical System
|isbn=978-0070465336
|year=1980
|last1=Nie
|first1=Norman H.
|publisher=McGraw-Hill
}}</ref>

Although the "C" was for "conversational", it also represented a distinction regarding how the data was stored: it used a [[column-oriented DBMS|column-oriented]] rather than a row-oriented (internal) database.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

This gave good interactive response time for the SPSS Conversational Statistical System (SCSS), whose strong point, as with SPSS, was Cross-tabulation.<ref>{{cite news
|newspaper=ComputerWorld  |date=September 26, 1977  |page=28
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uz8cDDHy64IC
|title=SCSS from SPSS, Inc}}</ref>