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Startup offers faster MySQL
MYSQL seems set to be promoted from its days as a Web server and is being shoved into high-pressure data warehousing, thanks to a start-up called Kickfire.
The Open Sauce database software is not really up to the high-pressure world of data warehousing, however WildFire claims that, armed with a proprietary chip and some new software, it has got MySQL doing greater things.
Kickfire's appliance starts at $32,000 and has 1TB of storage, so it is no longer the cheap and cheerful option. However, Kickfire claims it is a lot faster thanks to running its commands in silicon, as well as its columnar storage engine which has been tuned to read data really quickly. µ
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Computerworld
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Open Sauce = Open Source, but with a nicer taste :)
Could you please explain what Open Sauce is?
This is how Open Source software encourages innovation: instead of having to build their own entirely new database system from scratch, they could implement their ideas on top of an already-existing database that they were able to freely experiment with.
And potential customers are similarly not locked into yet another proprietary database: they can freely migrate their data back and forth, using the familiar data import/export tools that MySQL already offers.
WildFire?? KickFire!!