• [Kickfire Offers Data Warehouse Appliance for the Masses]
  • Kickfire supports a MySQL based data-warehouse appliance targeting 500Gb -5Tb range, starting at $32K.
  • Will have to start monitoring this one. They appear to use similar concept to Netezza by utilizing SQL in hardware for speed, not exactly the same – but interesting to see the appliance trend.
• [Building the Data Warehouse for bandwidth tracking]
  • This is a worthy read if you need to load and handle lots of naturally partitioned data
  • For those not willing to read, I’ll pose a question – how would you handle 683,460 tables

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