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MySQL for Business Intelligence

I've been approached by a couple different people this past week all asking what I think about MySQL as a Business Intelligence solution. I am not sure that MySQL is in a position to take on the database world presently owned by Oracle, DB2, Sybase and others. But with that said I do think there is a role for MySQL in the business intelligence arena. I believe it can find great traction as an embedded solution and under the right circumstances it can power applications, reporting systems and other segments within the space.

Companies like Infobright have found solid value in MySQL to build what they define as an analytics data warehouse. MySQL is the worlds most popular open source database. With Sun Microsystems recent purchase of the database I can't help but wonder if that will spur on its growth and generate greater enterprise level interest or if it will slow things down.

I'm off to TDWI this week and will be sure to get more information on its future from the folks at Sun .

Tags: MySQL, Business Intelligence, Infobright, Sun, TDWI

  Posted by srogers on February 17, 2008 7:27 AM |

Comments

I've seen some cool BI set up over MySql. I suppose it depends on what you mean by Business Intelligece, though.

I haven't seen too many implementations of MySql as a central data warehouse with tons of data, but I have seen numerous effective implementations of reporting/dashboarding practices over MySql transactional data.

Jerry
http://www.sisense.com
"Business Intelligence for MySql (and more)"

Posted by: Jerry Osea | April 15, 2008 3:53 AM

Thanks Jerry

I used the product in your comment, man... i have to tell you it really made a different of how i look at data, Prism looks like everything i was looking for in one product.

Posted by: Tim | May 9, 2008 12:51 AM

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