Congratulations to the Drupal community for getting version 7.0 released! This is a major mile stone and an excellent reason to celebrate!
If you want to give Drupal 7 a try without having to install anything, I've now updated my Drupal 7 appliances on SuSE Studio to the latest release. The appliance is based on openSUSE Linux 11.3 and is available in two variants:
Over the weekend I updated my Drupal 7 test appliance in SUSE Studio to the Drupal 7.0-beta2 release, which was released on Oct. 23rd. I also added phpMyAdmin upon a user request, to provide a web-based method to work with the MySQL instance, if needed.
In addition to the lightweight "headless" appliance (which can only be accessed and configured via a remote network connection), I've now also created a GUI-based version. This appliance starts a minimal GNOME desktop and a Mozilla Firefox browser, which in turn opens the …
[Read more]The Drupal community just recently released another alpha test release of their upcoming Drupal 7 version, to shake out the remaining bugs and to encourage more users to test it.
If you would like to give it a try, but you don't have a free server handy, how about using a virtual machine instead? Using the fabolous SuSE Studio, I've created an appliance based on openSUSE 11.3, Drupal 7.0-alpha7 and MySQL 5.1 with the InnoDB plugin and strict mode enabled (both for the …
[Read more]This is the first post in a new series of “Kickfire Basics” blog posts by myself and others here at Kickfire. This series will review the basics of the Kickfire appliance starting from this post describing how data is stored on disk, to future posts on topics such as loading data into the appliance and writing queries which best leverage the capabilities of the SQL chip.
The Kickfire Equation
Column store + Compression + SQL Chip =
performance
The Kickfire Analytic Appliance features the new KFDB storage engine which was built from scratch to handle queries over vast amounts of data. KFDB is a column store in contrast to most MySQL storage engines which are row stores. What follows is a description of our column oriented storage engine and how it improves performance over typical row stores.
This post concerns itself with the first part of the equation, the KFDB …
[Read more]Intuit launches open source project. SFLC on Microsoft GPL violation accusations.
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# MySQL and Memcached-based appliance vendor Schooner Info Tech has raised $20m in Series B funding.
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[Read more]Join the Sun and Kickfire team tomorrow to see the unveiling of the Kickfire’s On-Demand Trial. You can sign up for the live webinar and trial review here: http://tinyurl.com/kickfiretrial.
At Kickfire we’re very excited about this launch. We’ve had many customers who have asked for a quick way to trial the system to get a sense of the performance. In order to speed up setup time we are providing users with access to US Bureau of Transportation’s database. This database contains flight data from the last twenty years. The trial consists of four parts:
1) An overview of Kickfire and its technology (includes a short
Flash movie)
2) An interactive tutorial of a couple of sample queries. The
tutorial explains the DB schema, the SQL and the Kickfire
features that get performance
3) A pick list of sample queries and comparison times against
MySQL …
Why was Teradata able to become the leader of data warehousing at the super high-end (e.g. greater than 25 TB’s)? Why was Netezza only the second pure-play data warehousing company to go public by focusing on the 10 – 25 TB range of opportunities? Why did Oracle after so many years of denial finally announce a joint hardware / software product for data warehousing with HP, the Exadata data warehouse server? Why did Microsoft acquire DATAllegro, one of the earlier data warehousing appliances? Why are there now dozens of data warehouse appliances available on the market today, and – more importantly – how should a customer choose which one to purchase?
In all these cases, the vendors have listened to the market and concluded that the most optimal way to serve the customer is through a true data warehouse appliance. Given that there are so many flavors of appliances, though, here are some things to …
[Read more]The Kickfire MySQL Appliance is offically launched!
We just announced today, along with a new customer, and strategic partnerships with ten leading service companies including Percona, the MySQL performance experts.
Look for more news next week from Kickfire as we head into the MySQL conference. Kickfire will also give a keynote on the first day of the conference and will make a surprise announcement! Stay tuned …
The demand for high-tech appliances has been on the rise in the last few years. Their benefits — including high performance, low TCO, rapid time-to-value, and ease of use — have driven adoption in a variety of industries from data warehousing to network and security management, storage, retail, telephony and so on. As the analyst firm, Forrester, noted in a 2008 report:
“Appliances - in all their proliferation - are here to stay and are moving into the mainstream of computing and networking”
It turns out that the database of preference for a growing number of appliance vendors is MySQL. As noted on its appliance page, MySQL’s benefits of low TCO, ease of use, and rapid time-to-value map well to the requirements of appliance offerings.
As appliance markets have matured and competition has increased, there …
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Kickfire has announced (as of April 14th, 2008) record breaking
results in the TPC-H(tm) Price/Performance category at 300GB and
also in overall performance in the non-clustered category at
300GB.
You can find the official results here on the TPC(tm)
(Transaction Processing Performance Council) website:
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp?resulttype=noncluster
While the amazingly low price of the Kickfire Database Appliance
2400 will grab you (only about twice the price of a typical 4U
MySQL database server) -- the amazing performance per watt is
truly incredible. The 3RU Kickfire appliance used in the 300GB
volume test consumes …