October 14, 2009
Infobright notes
I had lunch w/ Bob Zurek and Susan Davis of Infobright today. This wasn’t primarily a briefing, but a few takeaways are:
- Infobright now has >100 paying customers.
- Typical database size is from the low 100s of gigabytes to the low single-digit number of terabytes.
- Agile development is at or approaching two-week release cycles.
- Like Kickfire, Infobright has a multi-year deal with MySQL that insulates it against many potential Oracle/MySQL shenanigans.
- From an industry perspective, Infobright’s customer base sounds a lot like other vendors’:
- Data mart outsourcing/online analytics
- Log files for websites
- Telecommunications
- Financial services
- OEM, especially in the markets cited above
- “Hey, we’re beginning to see the occasional energy deal”
- A few random others
- Infobright is seeing some household-name customers, who surely have big-name analytic DBMS products, but who also have a policy that open source is the default choice, and if open source can get the job done then the favorite closed-source choices aren’t used.
- Infobright has the usual open-source community story — lots of involvement and engagement in the forums, but contributions are limited mainly to connectivity, utility scripts, etc. (Maybe some national language translation too; I’m not sure.)
Categories: Analytic technologies, Data mart outsourcing, Data warehousing, Infobright, Investment research and trading, Kickfire, Log analysis, Market share and customer counts, MySQL, Open source, Telecommunications, Web analytics
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How does infobright get the benefit from the open source policy? The product they sell (the enterprise edition) is not open source, and the open source limitation is crippled to the point of being useless.
Lots of community edition users of our solution are having great success. Calling it useless is your own opinion.
Thanks Curt, enjoyed the lunch, see you around town and look forward to seeing you at the Boston Big Data Summit next week.
Shimin Chen from Intel Research Pittsburgh downloaded Infobright as a promising open-source column store for an academic study we are collaborating on. We used it for a couple of months, then waddled away. Main issues were that (a) we could not perform updates concurrently with other queries and (b) when running a TPCH query n times, then an append command augmenting tables by about 20%, then again the initial query n times, we noticed much higher (up to 3x) response times in the first couple of query runs after the append (and then query performance became stable again). This only happened for some queries and we were unable to find a clear pattern. Other (closed-source) products do not exhibit this behavior.Shimin may add more information and send you details in case the Infobright team can use the feedback.
More than happy to have you send feedback to me. My email is bob.zurek@infobright.com.
Also not sure what release you were running on as we have made significant enhancements over the past several months in the core product (both our community edition and enterprise edition). In addition, our next gen release is on its way very shortly.
While neither our open source nor enterprise edition products will fit every need and application, it is irrefutable that lots of ICE (open source edition) users are having great success with it. There are quite a few that have posted information about it – see a couple at http://www.fishpool.org/post/2009/04/08/Using-the-Infobright-Community-Edition-for-event-log-storage and http://blog.kagii.com/2009/04/infobright-query-videos.html.
try this for the second link, as the one above doesn’t work properly 🙂
http://blog.kagii.com/2009/04/infobright-query-videos.html
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