“What MySQL did for databases, letting the low end of the market use a great database, we’re concentrating on doing for data warehousing,” said Susan Davis, Infobright’s director of ...

Oracle is taking MySQL in a new direction: introducing an aggressively priced cloud service combining transaction processing and data warehousing, with the bonus of dispensing with ETL.

“MySQL really hasn’t been tuned for query processing and [data warehousing], so this is a great step,” Eckerson said. “I think [Kickfire will] do well.

The company, which operates an online community for moms, was running a 300GB MySQL data warehouse to analyze its user clickstream data. Performance was sluggish.

Kickfire ships MySQL-based appliance that delivers high-performance data warehousing out of the box The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 startup, powering a ...

Start-up offers appliance delivering high-performance data warehousing The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 start-up, powering a small but promising Web site.

MySQL features a Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture designed to enable users to optimize the database for their specific needs. The company delivers storage engines, such as the InnoDB engine, that ...

It is in companies of all sizes, across all industries, and in every region of the world. Further, the data that has been stored in MySQL for the last 25+ years is vast and largely untapped.

Kickfire's hardware-accelerated MySQL appliance blows the doors off monster Oracle database servers in equivalent TPC-H benchmarks in a tiny fraction of the cost, space, storage and power usage ...