… “struggling.” I think it was the same for Schooner and Kickfire, two companies that based their products on a closed-source…
Post: Kickfire Kickfire Kickfire
April 4, 2008 By 5 Comments
… these days Kickfire welcomed everyone to tell they’ve been working with Kickfire – Baron Keith Frank is writing about KickFire. Good Job Kickfire PR team you really energized community. We also were working with Kickfire…
Comment: TPC-H Run on MySQL 5.1 and 6.0
April 22, 2008 By 16 Comments
Given that Kickfire published 100GB TPC-H results (audited) where none of the … than result above (http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/Kickfire/Kickfire_2300_ES_TPCH_100G_041408.pdf) it appears MySQL/Sun… (unless they’ll buy Kickfire or sue it out of existence etc). I’m not affiliated with Kickfire in any way, shape…
Comment: TPC-H Run on MySQL 5.1 and 6.0
April 22, 2008 By 16 Comments
… compared to 16G of memory the Dell box had. Furthermore Kickfire uses column store which reduces IO needed dramatically in case… of accessing multiple columns becomes more expensive. As I mentioned Kickfire indeed handles some kind of queries just great but I…-on experiences with it to understand Its limits. Infobright, NitroDB, Kickfire all promise great speed improvements for certain kind of operations…
Comment: Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB
January 12, 2010 By 48 Comments
… too. I worked very closely with the QA department at Kickfire while employed there, identifying defects, testing functionality, performance and assisting… be clear, I would not go out and buy Infobright, Kickfire, InfiniDB, Oracle or any other database product unless I was…
Comment: Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB
January 8, 2010 By 48 Comments
Think you can get Kickfire to lend you a box to run the SSB at … is hard to parallelize a single SQL query. AFAIK only Kickfire and InfiniDB are capable of this.
Comment: TPC-H Run on MySQL 5.1 and 6.0
April 22, 2008 By 16 Comments
… it does, but you should consider couple things here. First – KickFire is positioned as Datawarehouse engine right now – it is not…
Post: All thouse new MySQL Storage Engines
April 17, 2008 By 8 Comments
… to Kick Ass. Walking in exhibition hall you could see KickFire, Infobright, Tokutek, ScaleDB. I have not seen NitroDB in the… it even complicated most of these solutions are close source (Kickfire also uses proprietary custom hardware) which makes it hard to…
Post: Percona Welcomes Justin Swanhart
May 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
…, Justin worked as a MySQL DBA at Gazillion, Yahoo, and Kickfire. Justin has become a regular contributor here on the MySQL…
Comment: Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB
April 11, 2010 By 48 Comments
… builds such a structure on FK constraints, as does ScaleDB, Kickfire, and other database engines. Other engines focus on distributed hash…
