20 posts tagged ParAccel

We announced this week a strategic partnership with columnar database appliance vendor ParAccel. This young company (they launched 6 months ago) offers one of the best price performance ratio in the DW appliance market.

San Diego-based ParAccel, a developer of database management software, said Monday that it has entered into an OEM relationship with IBM, where it will embed IBM's InfoSphere Change Data Capture tool within its database. ParAccel said the addition will give its customers access to real-time upates from IBM DB2, as well as Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

In this article, Phillip Howard asks: ...here's an interesting question: if EnterpriseDB's main claim to fame is that you can run Oracle applications without change against Postgres Plus Advanced Server; and if Dataupia makes the same claim with respect to data warehousing, then can you run Dataupia against Postgres Plus Advanced Server?

I made a round of queries about data warehouse software or appliance pricing, and am posting the results as I get them. Earlier installments featured Teradata and Netezza. Now ParAccel is up. ParAccel’s software license fees are actually very simple — $50K per server or $100K per terabyte, whichever is less.

Lately I have been researching ParAccel and have a level of comfort with the query speeds of columnar architectures.  However, I am far less comfortable with their load times.  Here are the big benefits ParAccel and Vertica and my concerns around their load time limitations.

There now are four hardware vendors that each offer or seem about to announce two different tiers of data warehouse appliances: Sun, HP, EMC, and Teradata. Specifically: Sun partners with both Greenplum and ParAccel. HP sells Neoview, and also is partnered with Vertica.

A talk about a ParAccel/EMC partnership has been promised for a forthcoming EMC user conference. Otherwise, ParAccel is exposing no useful information on the matter.* *So what else is new? The talk is called Highly Scalable Analytic Appliance Powered by EMC and ParAccel, and the abstract says:

I've spent a lot of time thinking about ParAccel over the last few weeks. As I mentioned in my first post about them, I think that their impact on the analytics database industry is going to be significant, and over the last couple weeks I've been struggling with exactly what I think that impact is going to be and how to express it.

ParAccel, a San Diego company that has developed an analytical database that it says provides faster access to business information data, has raised $22 million in a second round of financing, VentureBeat has learned. Investors include Bay Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures and PacVen Walden Ventures.

ParAccel, analytical database company, raises $22M more Monday 25 February 2008 @ 2:30 pm ParAccel, a San Diego company that has developed an analytical database that it says provides faster access to business information data, has raised $22 million in a second round of financing, VentureBeat has learned.