Kickfire and MySQL

BANGALORE, INDIA: Notable in the third generation category is Kickfire. Kickfire’s vision is to develop a “best of all worlds” solution; an open source data warehousing solution supporting the key features of an analytics database architecture deployed on a dedicated appliance that can deliver enterprise-level performance and functionality at an affordable price-point.

It is no secret that general purpose CPUs have major bottlenecks that need to be eliminated rather than mitigated. Typically vendors and users seek to ease these bottlenecks through proven techniques such as parallelism, disk striping and advanced tuning. However, these are stop gap measures that do not address the fundamental issue that general purpose computers are not optimized to move and analyze large amounts of data in a short period of time.

Kickfire’s appliance-based solution addresses this fundamental issue in a new and innovative way: it is a purpose-built appliance optimized for data warehousing performance that deploys the latest analytic database features on a standard, open source database. In line with industry trends towards open source, Kickfire selected Sun’s MySQL database as its database engine and developed a Storage Engine that plugs directly into MySQL’s core architecture. So, what’s different about Kickfire?

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