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BI Analytic Appliances - Kickfire has a difference

The BI market is being flooded with a plethora of options to enable high performance analytics. A new entrant to this market is a definitive "disruptive" technology startup, Kickfire. I had the opportunity to spend a few hours with the Kickfire team and have come to the learn that their approach to the "need for speed" is a new way to solve the speed issue and overall the goal of the founders is to enable "BI to the masses" at an affordable price without breaking the bank.

The solution that Kickfire has is an intelligence engine built into a proprietary "SQL" chip, which will sit between the RDBMS and your BI tools. The chip along with a DB Kernel enhancement (primarily for MySQL today) will provide the acceleration to get the performance.

The company primarily is targeting MySQL customers today, and will expand to other RDBMS platforms in the course of time.

I'm really enthused that we are addressing the "need for speed" at every different angle, and in the end of the day, the business user will be a very satisfied end consumer of all this technology breakthroughs.

  Posted by kkrishnan on September 26, 2008 3:56 PM |

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