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Blog: Shawn RogersApril 22, 2008Kickfire a MySQL Appliance SolutionKickfire launched this past week and jumped into the already deep waters of the appliance space. They have not yet gone GA but are working towards a fall release and are presently in beta with several clients. A couple interesting things about their approach is they are focusing on MySQL and they have added a hardware chip component to the appliance the is especially designed to supercharge SQL. To make sure they are seen as the real deal they joined forces with MySQL parent company Sun to set a new TPC-H benchmark. They set a new Dollar Barrier mark as well as setting a new performance record in the non-clustered category for 100GB. The overall price performance of this system was $0.70/QphH@100GB USD, which is the best in the industry. Kickfire seems to be getting the performance from a combination of column store format, intelligent indexing and the SQL Chip I mentioned above. They feel they have made important steps towards reducing the effects of the Von Neumann bottleneck. Tags: Data warehouse appliance, business intelligence, Kickfire April 21, 2008Teradata fires back at the appliance spaceTeradata announced today that they are now offering a new family of platforms designed to address needs from entry level to active enterprise level. This is a significant move on Teradata's part and it's aimed directly at the appliance market that has been nibbling away at Teradata's market share over the past few years. I grabbed a piece of the press release below, the biggest thing here is that you can get into Teradata for $67K per terabyte!!! • Teradata 550 SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), with a price of $67,000(1) per terabyte, a departmental data warehouse. • Teradata 2500, priced at $125,000(1) per terabyte, an entry-level data warehouse for companies that are just starting out or for those with other analytical platform requirements in their enterprises. • Teradata 5550, an active data warehouse-class platform, starts at $200,000(1) per terabyte depending on the performance and availability needs of the customer. The Teradata 5550 and Teradata 12 provide up to two times the system performance over their respective predecessors. Looks like Teradata is having fun with their new found corporate freedom, great move! Tags: Teradata, data warehouse appliance August 29, 2007Faster than a speeding bullet.........It’s a DBMS, It’s an appliance, It’s an accelerator! Yes, it ParAccel! That’s a fun way to start a blog post. I got to hang out with the folks from ParAccel this past week at TDWI and it's interesting to see how they are positioning themselves in the market. While everybody and their mother is fast claiming to be an appliance Kim Stanick Vice President of Marketing isn't focusing on fitting into a category she has ParAccel focused on solving problems. I was impressed with the flexibility of the solution and its technical abilities that open the door for numerous ways to use the solution. The core product is the Celerian Query Engine a column oriented SQL engine optimized for Business Intelligence workloads ParAccel utilizes the columnar logic, compression and the ability to do the work in-memory to save its clients a lot of time and money. They have great success stories in the International Telco space, E-commerce, logistics management, information services and restaurants chains. The Telco reference is a great one, ParAccel took a report that previously took 60 hours to run down to 2.5 minutes. As I mentioned above the solution comes in many flavors to fit your specific headaches, "Maverick Mode" is a standalone implementation that works much like a DW or ODS, "Amigo Mode" puts the solutions alongside the database of record (SQL Server today, Oracle coming in 2008), and allows you to direct the "ugly" queries to ParAccel instead of the production environment and the variations go on from there. David Ehrlich CEO of ParAccel podcasted with us this week so you can listen here if you'd like. I recommend you take a look at the solution. Tags: Business Intelligence, ParAccel, DBMS, Appliance, Accelerator, Kim Stanick, David Ehrlich August 13, 2007Netezza IPOSeveral weeks back (7/19) the executive team at Netezza rang the bell to open the stock market and watched as their IPO of 9,000,000 shares of common stock hit the market. See stock symbol "NZ" for greater details. The stock opened at $12.00 at launch and closed Friday at $14.43 down a bit from its high of $18.40 but considering the volatile market this past week or two Netezza is performing quite well. Stocks aside I'm excited to see the appliance sector taking another huge step forward. It's clear with the IPO of Netezza that this solution space is moving quickly in the right direction. It makes me curious about what will happen in this space over the next year. I expect that we'll see some consolidation and I know that we will see new players enter the market. If you want more information on the appliance sector download the study "Data Warehouse Appliances: Evolution or Revolution?" by Colin White and Richard Hackathorn just completed here at the Network. Congratulations Netezza! Tag: Netezza, Data Warehouse Appliance, Business Intelligence, July 26, 2006New Data Warehouse Appliance Solution from Sun and GreenplumWhat would happen in the data warehouse appliance space if a new player entered the market and offered a solution for as low as $15,000 per terabyte? Looks like we are going to find out! Sun Microsystems and Greenplum have launched an appliance that uses the high data throughput and storage density of the Sun Fire X4500 server with Opteron processors and Greenplum's Scale-Everything™ parallel database. The system is powered by Solaris(tm) 10 operating system and PostgreSQL. I've watched the data warehouse appliance space with a lot of interest over the past couple years. Todays news will certainly impact Netezza and Datallegro the present leaders in the space but I can't help wonder what the folks at Teradata are thinking about another company getting into this space. Also, it seems that Sun and Greenplum have beaten the team at HP to the market as well. There have been a ton of rumors circulating as to weather Mark Hurd and team might enter the appliance market in a bid to take market share from his old company and others. Sun could really make an interesting play in the space with this solution, they are addressing several areas all at once.
I think the last interesting part of this news is the focus of Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, I have been told that this project was brokered by Jonathan and Greenplum CEO Scott Yara directly. It seems to me that with this level of endorsement the focus on this project will be highly coordinated at both Sun and Greenplum. The impact of a company the size of Sun on this market won't go unnoticed. Sun hopes to announce its first customer in the coming weeks, a 100 terabyte installation is in the works. I am interested in hearing your take on the topic, please post comments on this one. Other links: Technorati Tags: Sun Microsystems, Greenplum, b-eye-network.com, data warehouse appliance, business intelligence, data warehouse April 12, 2006LAVA is a hot new appliance for BICelequest announced yesterday the launch of a new Business Intelligence appliance thats been created specifically for operational business intelligence. The LAVA appliance includes data integration, analytics, end-user dashboards and tools for collaboration, plugs into a company’s existing network and can be up and running in just a few days. The solution is aimed at removing the pain associated with "BI for the masses" and reducing the cost of hardware needed to support large business intelligence implementations. Here's a quote from my friend Diaz Nesamoney: “LAVA, the new appliance version of Celequest’s breakthrough technology, gives companies the ability to roll out operational BI and performance dashboards to their entire organization for a fraction of the cost of traditional BI solutions,” said Diaz Nesamoney, founder and chief executive officer of Celequest. “LAVA enables companies to provide up-to-the-minute business information to thousands of operational workers, empowering decision-makers across the organization to spot emerging trends, immediately take action when problems arise and positively affect their company’s bottom line. This approach represents a quantum leap over the capabilities of traditional BI solutions.”
They have taken an interesting pricing approach to the solution that allows for a standard configuration of LAVA at $125,000. This configuration includes unlimited seat licenses and support for unlimited dashboards and data sources. |
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