June 23, 2009
ParAccel pricing
As I noted in connection with ParAccel’s recent TPC-H filing, I think the whole exercise is basically an expensive joke. But one slightly useful spin-off is that ParAccel disclosed pricing. Specifically, ParAccel’s stated price in the disclosure document is:
- $100,000/TB license fee (user data). That’s like Vertica, although I don’t know whether ParAccel emulates Vertica’s policy of making test and development licenses free.
- 57% quantity discount at 30 terabytes. That’s not surprising.
- 1% annual maintenance fee (applied to the discounted price). That’s astounding.
Last year ParAccel quoted prices of $100,000/TB or $50,000/server. The latter figure would seem to have led to lower numbers on the benchmark configuration, so perhaps it’s no longer an option on ParAccel’s price list.
Categories: Benchmarks and POCs, Data warehousing, ParAccel, Pricing
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Man, I sure wish you’d do a whole post on pricing in this industry. It’s really all over the place (or maybe I’m just not getting it) but I suspect many people could use some of your insight on that issue. What does “per TB” really mean anyway? Are there finite ways to price in this market or is it really just all over the place or “à la tète du client” as we say in French?!?
A few huge problems in writing about pricing:
1. Quantity discounts are major. (Or negotiated prices.)
2. Quantity discounts are severe.
3. The mapping between TB of user data and hardware or storage is very imprecise.
4. Vendors aren’t particularly forthcoming, and even if one tried to get the info from users, each situation is different.
I do the best I reasonably can.