illuminate

8. February 2009 by Rick Abbott.

I’m getting a lot of interest recently in the data warehouse appliance chart I’ve been maintaining.  I just spoke with Joe Foley, CTO of illuminate and added them to the spreadsheet.  Their flagship product, iLuminate, stores data in a “value based storage” methodology that is neither row nor column.  Essentially each unique data element in the database is stored, with all relationships (forward and reverse) captured in a pointer fashion.  According to Joe this enables the database to realize significant compression of greater than 50%, while being able to scale in a linear manner without bound (except for 64-bit addressing limit in the hardware).  The only run on a Windows platform, but are planning on rolling out a Linux based system in 2009.  illuminate also has an analytical package called iCorrelate, which provides ad hoc reporting and analysis capability.

I have calls scheduled this week with Infobright’s CEO Miriam Tuerk and Aster Data.  Will post a new sheet at the end of the week.

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