September 15, 2008
Infobright update
In connection with the announcements that:
- Infobright is open sourcing its analytical DBMS product (which is a really good idea)
- Infobright raised a $10 million VC round, with Sun as a new investor
I got my first real Infobright update since January. Highlights included:
- The “Brighthouse” product name is apparently being dropped. So let’s just talk about “Infobright.”
- Infobright is going open source. There will be a fairly conventional dual-edition strategy:
- Community/GPL/free
- Enterprise/subscription. Per-terabyte pricing is available on three tiers, ranging from US$9,950-15,950/year.
- Infobright is ceasing the sale of perpetual licenses.
- Infobright claims 8-9 referenceable customers and a dozen+ production customers. (That’s actually more than several more visible competitors have.)
- Infobright customers to date are concentrated in a couple of unsurprising markets – online marketing (i.e., analytic SaaS) and telecom. And one of the exceptions to that rule is a mid-sized bank.
- Release 3 of the Infobright technology, which is in GA at a couple of sites, finally has real Insert/Update/Delete capability (as opposed to a prior restriction to bulk load.) I forgot to confirm whether this means there now is ACID-compliance.
- MPP support is still a “roadmap” item for Infobright.
- Not coincidentally, Infobright asserts that great compression lets it support up to 30 terabytes of user data on a single server.
- Infobright talks a lot about “parallel” loading, but that really just means multithreaded. Even so, Infobright asserts load speed is a competitive advantage.
- Infobright characterizes its market sweet spot as 1/2-30 TB of user data and 3-10 concurrent users. That market indeed wants products that are very simple to install and administer.
Posts today on open source DBMS
- Infobright’s smart move to open source
- General Infobright update
- Infobright sound bites
- The many faces of open source DBMS
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I wrote a post about InfoBright. I think it will fit in well with my customers where a warehouse is still smaller than an enterprise “mart”.
http://andpointsbeyond.com/2008/09/16/infobright-open-source-column-store-dbms/
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