Kickfire extends MySQL relationship with Sun

SANTA CLARA, USA: Kickfire, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced a joint MySQL Enterprise marketing agreement for the world’s first high-performance MySQL data warehousing appliance.

The companies will work together to promote the Kickfire MySQL Appliance to data warehouse prospects as part of Sun’s MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program.

The Kickfire appliance is targeted at the data warehousing mass market, where Sun’s MySQL open source database has a large installed base.

First, it delivers the world’s best price/performance solution, making ultra-high performance affordable to the masses. Second, as a plug-and-play appliance, it drastically reduces the need for IT resources or data warehousing expertise.

Finally, with features such as high-user concurrency, high-speed incremental loading, and full transactional support, it handles both traditional and operational-style data warehousing.

“We are looking forward to helping Kickfire promote their innovative data warehouse solution for MySQL Enterprise,” said Mark Herring, vice president, MySQL and Software Infrastructure marketing, Sun Microsystems. “Their price/performance and plug-and-play flexibility should be extremely compelling for organizations looking to deploy affordable-yet-fast data warehouses less than ten terabytes in size.”

“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to extend our relationship with Sun,” commented Bruce Armstrong, chairman and chief executive officer of Kickfire. “Our appliance consistently demonstrates 10-100X query performance improvements and is the price-performance leader, according to rigorous industry benchmarks.”