Infobright Community Edition (ICE) is a self-tuning, columnar database based on MySQL that is easy to use, offers superfast data loading, high levels of data compression, and excellent query performance. In lieu of indexing, Infobright populates a "Knowledge Grid" of metadata at load time to speed query responses. To take advantage of advanced features -- including multicore processing, high availability, faster DML and data loading -- and commercial support, you'll need to spring for the Infobright Enterprise Edition. Infobright's command-line interface might put off some users. But availability for Windows and Linux, 32- and 64-bit flavors, as well as a VMware VM image offer broad deployment options. You'll also find a number of new, preconfigured VMs available that bundle ICE with Jaspersoft, Pentaho, BIRT, or Talend tools.
License: GPL
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