May 24, 2012

Post: Kickfire Kickfire Kickfire

… 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

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

… 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

… 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

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

… 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

… 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

…, 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

… builds such a structure on FK constraints, as does ScaleDB, Kickfire, and other database engines. Other engines focus on distributed hash…

Post: New OLAP Wikistat benchmark: Introduction and call for feedbacks

;) ) I’d like also to test also Paraccel, Vertica and KickFire systems, but I do not have access to. I welcome…