Comments on: Infobright’s open source move has a lot of potential http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/15/infobright-open-source/ Choices in data management and analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Jay Jakosky http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/15/infobright-open-source/#comment-97485 Jay Jakosky Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:15:03 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=545#comment-97485 The marketing for InfoBright talks about sizes from 500GB to 30TB. I think that InfoBright Community Edition will see most of its adoption in small companies with just a few gigabytes. These are companies that report directly against the transactional system and use canned structured reports. InfoBright is one half of a low/no-cost reporting system that allows speed-of-thought interactivity. What emerges is a game changer in every business I've consulted to. It's hard to sell an emergent benefit. QlikView, my preferred tool, relies on on-site proof-of-concepts that invariably amaze customers. I'm eager to have open-source tools to build these systems for a tenth of the cost of QlikView, which is itself a tenth of the cost of its predecessors. http://andpointsbeyond.com/2008/09/16/infobright-open-source-column-store-dbms/ The marketing for InfoBright talks about sizes from 500GB to 30TB. I think that InfoBright Community Edition will see most of its adoption in small companies with just a few gigabytes. These are companies that report directly against the transactional system and use canned structured reports. InfoBright is one half of a low/no-cost reporting system that allows speed-of-thought interactivity. What emerges is a game changer in every business I’ve consulted to. It’s hard to sell an emergent benefit. QlikView, my preferred tool, relies on on-site proof-of-concepts that invariably amaze customers. I’m eager to have open-source tools to build these systems for a tenth of the cost of QlikView, which is itself a tenth of the cost of its predecessors.

http://andpointsbeyond.com/2008/09/16/infobright-open-source-column-store-dbms/

]]> By: Victoria Eastwood http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/15/infobright-open-source/#comment-97456 Victoria Eastwood Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:11:37 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=545#comment-97456 Regarding your question about ACID compliance, we have not seen a requirement for it to date, as customers and prospects use source system integrity enforcement and the ETL process to ensure integrity of the data and prefer this over enforcing integrity on load (which slows the load down and is often unnecessary if strong data quality management is in place). If however our customers or community see it as a requirement, we would certainly consider it as part of our product roadmap. One of the great benefits to us of the open source model is to get very direct feedback on what is needed – and we look forward to that. In regard to the “serious limitations” you mention, some features are available with the use of third party products so they don’t get referenced in our product information, such as backup tools, monitoring tools etc. Since they can be easily implemented we don’t see these as limitation. Of course we’ll be adding additional features in both ICE and IEE every quarter or so, so both products will continue to evolve. We are also focused on the data warehousing market place and many features of a traditional database system are simply not used (nor demanded by our customers). We are not trying to provide a solution for the very high end of the market – where companies have 100’s of terabytes and up, and have the millions of dollars and scores of highly technical experts to plan and implement a complex solution. We think for those companies who need a product that can support up to about 30TB of data, don’t have millions to spend or lots of DBAs, Infobright’s solution will be a great fit. Cheers -Victoria Regarding your question about ACID compliance, we have not seen a requirement for it to date, as customers and prospects use source system integrity enforcement and the ETL process to ensure integrity of the data and prefer this over enforcing integrity on load (which slows the load down and is often unnecessary if strong data quality management is in place). If however our customers or community see it as a requirement, we would certainly consider it as part of our product roadmap. One of the great benefits to us of the open source model is to get very direct feedback on what is needed – and we look forward to that.

In regard to the “serious limitations” you mention, some features are available with the use of third party products so they don’t get referenced in our product information, such as backup tools, monitoring tools etc. Since they can be easily implemented we don’t see these as limitation. Of course we’ll be adding additional features in both ICE and IEE every quarter or so, so both products will continue to evolve. We are also focused on the data warehousing market place and many features of a traditional database system are simply not used (nor demanded by our customers). We are not trying to provide a solution for the very high end of the market – where companies have 100’s of terabytes and up, and have the millions of dollars and scores of highly technical experts to plan and implement a complex solution. We think for those companies who need a product that can support up to about 30TB of data, don’t have millions to spend or lots of DBAs, Infobright’s solution will be a great fit.

Cheers -Victoria

]]> By: Infobright goes open source — sound bites | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/15/infobright-open-source/#comment-97435 Infobright goes open source — sound bites | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:06:45 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=545#comment-97435 [...] when there is industry news, I herewith provide quotable sound bites about Infobright and its move to an open source strategy. Weather permitting, I’ll be on a plane to the Netezza conference this afternoon. And [...] [...] when there is industry news, I herewith provide quotable sound bites about Infobright and its move to an open source strategy. Weather permitting, I’ll be on a plane to the Netezza conference this afternoon. And [...]

]]> By: Infobright update | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/15/infobright-open-source/#comment-97434 Infobright update | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:06:04 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=545#comment-97434 [...] Infobright is open sourcing its analytical DBMS product (which is a really good idea) [...] [...] Infobright is open sourcing its analytical DBMS product (which is a really good idea) [...]

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