Calpont

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Calpont Corporation
Industry Enterprise Software
Database Management
Data Warehousing
Founded 2000
Headquarters Frisco, Texas, USA
Products InfiniDB Enterprise Edition,
InfiniDB Community Edition
Website www.calpont.com

Calpont is a database management software company based in Frisco, Texas. Calpont makes InfiniDB, a scalable, software-only columnar database management system[1] for analytic applications.[2] InfiniDB has been selected as finalist in the Best Database Solution category at the 26th and 27th SIIA Annual CODiE Awards.[3][4]

InfiniDB Enterprise is a scalable database built for big data analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing and other read-intensive applications.[3] InfiniDB's column-store architecture enables very quick load and query times.[5] Its massive parallel processing (MPP) technology scales with any type of storage hardware.[6]

Columnar Databases

By storing and managing data based on columns rather than rows, column-oriented architecture overcomes query limitations that exist in traditional row-based RDBMS. Only the necessary columns in a query are accessed, reducing I/O activities by circumventing unneeded rows.[7]

InfiniDB is accessed through a MySQL interface.[8] It then parallelizes queries and executes in a Map-Reduce fashion (similar in concept to the methodology used by Apache Hadoop).[9] Each thread within the distributed architecture operates independently, avoiding thread-to-thread or node-to-node communication that can cripple scaling.[10]


InfiniDB is used to enable performance-intensive analytic applications. Customers include Bandwidth.com, Tucows, Warner Music Group,[11] Genus,[12] Aviation Software International,[13] Caring Bridge,[14] Navigant Consulting and 1&1 Internet.[15]

Calpont resellers include SkySQL (including many former MySQL employees)[16] and KK Ashisuto in Japan.[17]

InfiniDB

InfiniDB can be used in two varieties: InfiniDB Community Edition and InfiniDB Enterprise Edition.

InfiniDB Community Edition (CE) is an open-source[18] version of the database that can be used at no charge. However, CE does not support MPP scale-out and has other limited features.[19] Experiences with InfiniDB CE were chronicled on several developer blogs.[20][21][22]

InfiniDB Enterprise Edition (EE) is the commercial version of InfiniDB. It supports scaling out to any number of nodes.[19]

Both editions of InfiniDB offer a Hadoop connector free-of-charge.[23] Both editions can be deployed on Amazon Web Services.[24]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/infinidb-20-supports-big-data-analytics-009089.php
  2. ↑ http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/28857/calpont%E2%80%99s-infinidb-%E2%80%93-another-adbms-insurgent-arises/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.siia.net/codies/2011/finalist_detail.asp?id=9
  4. ↑ http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9313454.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/01/07/star-schema-bechmark-infobright-infinidb-and-luciddb/
  6. ↑ http://www.infinidb.org/blogs/view/81-infinidb-to-1-trillion-rows-1039909436172-
  7. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKcAdrjt1Y
  8. ↑ http://www.information-management.com/gallery/-10021367-1.html?start=21
  9. ↑ http://tm.durusau.net/?cat=666
  10. ↑ http://infinidb.org/blogs/view/93-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-infinidb-part-2-of-3
  11. ↑ http://www.calpont.com/warner-music-group-case-study-video
  12. ↑ http://strataconf.com/strata2012/public/schedule/speaker/129424
  13. ↑ http://www.aviation-software.net/news/news-asi-calpont.html
  14. ↑ http://www.information-management.com/issues/21_3/calpont-infinidb-10020717-1.html
  15. ↑ http://www.calpont.com/customers
  16. ↑ http://www.business-intelligence.net/blog/calpont-infinidb-becomes-strategic-component-of-the-skysql-reference-architecture
  17. ↑ http://digitaljournal.com/pr/484834
  18. ↑ http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2009/10/calpont-opens-up-infinidb-open-source.html
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 http://www.calpont.com/resources/community
  20. ↑ http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/forum/topic/experiences-infinidb
  21. ↑ http://survivalguides.wordpress.com/category/it-survival/linux/infinidb/
  22. ↑ http://dave-stokes.blogspot.com/2010/11/calpont-infinidb-20-and-bi-quickstarts.html
  23. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/calpont-offers-infinidb-hadoop-data-connector-180028327.html
  24. ↑ http://infinidb.org/component/content/article/53/218
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