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IAP: Ingres Thinking Software Appliances to Deliver BI

Mike Boyarski, Director of Product Mgt of Ingres, talked on Appliance-Based Computing for BI. He has working at Oracle for eleven years and then to On-Demand.

Mike mentioned the long history of Ingres. However, the current goal is to be the enterprise-class open source database. A number of companies are contributing to the open-source base, such as DATAllegro contributing hash key encoding, sort performance and partitioned indexing. The academic institutions are doing significant database research on the code base.

He remarked that the market fits better with the mid-market companies. When compared with MySQL, Mike inserts that Ingres is better in performance.

Companies that are basing products on the Ingres codebase are: Pentaho/JasperSoft, Business Objects, DATAllegro, GoldenGate. Ingres tends to be a good technology alternative for the SaaS market. The rapid innovation of open-source software has become a problem for most data centers that require more stability.

Mike defined Appliance-Based Computing as a “complete pre-integrated and standardized BI software stack”. He asserts that hardware is not part of the appliance, despite the sensitivity of a BI system to processor/network balance.

The Ingress Icebreaker BI Appliance consists of the following stack: Jasper, Apache/Tomcat, Java, Ingres 2006, Linux. Mike characterizes that this system results in a capability similar to Business Objects two years ago.

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