InfiniDB counts on Apache Hadoop

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InfiniDB counts on Apache Hadoop Analytical DBMS: InfiniDB (formerly Calpont). In-memory DBMS: None. Hadoop distribution: None. Stream-processing technology: None. Hardware/software systems: None (software-only vendor). InfiniDB is the new name for the database management system formerly known by the company name, Calpont. This 14-year-old firm is on its fourth-generation massively parallel processing, columnar DBMS. The new product name is part of a push to step up sales and marketing efforts and get beyond the current base of about 50 customers. The InfiniDB makeover isn't just a name change. The company has reengineered the DBMS to run on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System for SQL-on-Hadoop analysis -- much as Pivotal did with Greenplum to create HAWQ. Conventional deployment options include Linux, Windows, or cloud on Amazon Web Services. The company also open sourced InfiniDB under the GNU General Public License, a choice it made because it's a MySQL storage engine. The commercially supported Enterprise edition adds utilities for administration and automation as well as a management console. The InfiniDB technology is most comparable to that of HP Vertica and Actian Matrix (formerly Actian ParAccel), but company executives claim that automated partitioning features make it easier to manage than these rivals. The company also claims SQL-on-Hadoop query performance advantages over Cloudera Impala, Hive, and other approaches. These assertions won't win many friends and alliances among Hadoop distributors, but the company is counting on aggressive pricing to win over Hadoop users and would-be DBMS customers.
InfiniDB counts on Apache Hadoop

Analytical DBMS: InfiniDB (formerly Calpont).
In-memory DBMS: None.
Hadoop distribution: None.
Stream-processing technology: None.
Hardware/software systems: None (software-only vendor).
InfiniDB is the new name for the database management system formerly known by the company name, Calpont. This 14-year-old firm is on its fourth-generation massively parallel processing, columnar DBMS. The new product name is part of a push to step up sales and marketing efforts and get beyond the current base of about 50 customers.
The InfiniDB makeover isn't just a name change. The company has reengineered the DBMS to run on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System for SQL-on-Hadoop analysis -- much as Pivotal did with Greenplum to create HAWQ. Conventional deployment options include Linux, Windows, or cloud on Amazon Web Services. The company also open sourced InfiniDB under the GNU General Public License, a choice it made because it's a MySQL storage engine. The commercially supported Enterprise edition adds utilities for administration and automation as well as a management console.
The InfiniDB technology is most comparable to that of HP Vertica and Actian Matrix (formerly Actian ParAccel), but company executives claim that automated partitioning features make it easier to manage than these rivals. The company also claims SQL-on-Hadoop query performance advantages over Cloudera Impala, Hive, and other approaches. These assertions won't win many friends and alliances among Hadoop distributors, but the company is counting on aggressive pricing to win over Hadoop users and would-be DBMS customers.

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