January 3, 2009
ParAccel’s market momentum
After my recent blog post, ParAccel is once again angry that I haven’t given it proper credit for it accomplishments. So let me try to redress the failing.
- ParAccel has disclosed the names of two customers, LatiNode and Merkle (presumably as an add-on to Merkle’s Netezza environment). And ParAccel has named two others under NDA. Four disclosed or semi-disclosed customers is actually more than DATAllegro has/had, although I presume DATAllegro’s three known customers are larger, especially in terms of database size.
- ParAccel sports a long list of partners, and has put out quite a few press releases in connection with these partnerships. While I’ve never succeeded in finding a company that took its ParAccel partnership especially seriously, I’ve only asked three or four of them, which is a small fraction of the total number of partners ParAccel has announced, so in no way can I rule out that somebody, somewhere, is actively helping ParAccel try to sell its products.
- ParAccel repeatedly says it has beaten Vertica in numerous proofs-of-concept (POCs), considerably more than the two cases in which it claims to have actually won a deal against Vertica competition.
- ParAccel has elicited favorable commentary from such astute observers as Seth Grimes and Doug Henschen.
- ParAccel has been noted for running TPC-H benchmarks in memory much more quickly than other vendors run them on disk.
Uh, that’s about all I can think of. What else am I forgetting? Surely that can’t be ParAccel’s entire litany of market success!
Categories: Data warehousing, Market share and customer counts, ParAccel
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Curt, ParAccel told me that LatinNode was acquired and shut down hence is no longer a ParAccel client. ParAccel has recently acquired a “marketing analytics provider” customer.
Thanks for the update, Seth.
Curt,
Your comment
“ParAccel has been noted for running TPC-H benchmarks in memory much more quickly than other vendors run them on disk.”
may have been true in the past, but in case you haven’t noticed, you should check out
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=109062201
This looks like a monster result that cannot have been run in memory.
I assume that’s link to the recent TPC-H with 961 terabytes of disk and 2 1/2 terabytes of RAM for 30 terabytes of data.
I don’t know whether ParAccel’s compression is good enough to run all that in memory. However, Vertica’s figures might be a clue: http://www.dbms2.com/2008/09/24/vertica-finally-spells-out-its-compression-claims/
By the way, it seems one of the two NDAed ParAccel customers mentioned in the post above didn’t actually come to fruition. A pity — that was the impressive one.
On the plus side, ParAccel has put out press releases claiming other customers …
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