Calpont Announces New Open Source Licensing for InfiniDB
Frisco, TX and San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 15, 2013 -- Calpont Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance analytic data platforms, announced new licensing for its MPP, column-oriented data technology, InfiniDB. Effective immediately, InfiniDB and its associated platforms will be available with an open-source core under the General Public License version 2.0. The updated licensing terms create new opportunities for companies to experience Big Data analytics by scaling InfiniDB across multiple processing cores, servers and huge data sets without software licensing limitations.
“We realized that InfiniDB was a disruptive technology that was being constrained by traditional licensing terms. InfiniDB has always had roots in open source but there were limits on how broad the distribution of software could be across multiple cores. We are confident that the new licensing terms will give data scientists, developers and DBAs a new way to experience how powerful our MPP, column-oriented data platforms are to unlocking true Big Data analytics,” said Jim Tommaney, CTO at Calpont Corporation.
Calpont determined that offering InfiniDB with an open source core will create broader distribution of the software. The company’s business model is changing to offer an optional Enterprise Subscription. The InfiniDB Enterprise Subscription is a comprehensive offering of enhanced server software and enterprise-level SLA support.
Today’s news coincides with the announcement of InfiniDB 4 and InfiniDB for the Cloud (See today’s announcement Calpont Launches InfiniDB 4 and InfiniDB for the Cloud that Bring Power, Performance and Ease of Use to Massively Scalable Analytics). InfiniDB 4 includes a number of enhancements for the demands of high availability workloads and includes additional 3rd party tool integrations. InfiniDB for the Cloud enables high-performance analytics applications in AWS™ with dynamic provisioning as data demands and processing needs grow.
InfiniDB was designed from the inception for large scale, high performance dimensional analytics, predictive analytics, and ad-hoc business intelligence. InfiniDB capitalizes on a variety of data structures and deployment variations to meet organizations’ unique needs. A massive parallel processing (MPP) column solution, InfiniDB executes SQL written queries as parallelized map and reduction operations, providing the best of both performance and scale for analytics. InfiniDB helps companies that have massive amounts of highly dimensional data by storing in columns rather than rows. When queried, InfiniDB accesses only the row data needed for the columns required and distributes the query optimally across all available hardware CPUs, dramatically reducing response times.
For more information about Calpont InfiniDB and to get started with your own Big Data analytics platform visit http://www.calpont.com.
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About Calpont
Calpont empowers data superstars to solve problems and create new solutions with powerful Big Data analytics. The company’s platform, InfiniDB, is a fourth-generation massive parallel processing (MPP) column-oriented data technology that is known for its rapid implementation, simplicity and extraordinary value. InfiniDB is built for today’s growing enterprises that demand speed, scale and efficiency in their analytics platforms where leveraging traditional and emerging data technologies, structures and architectures are required. InfiniDB products are licensed as GPL-2.0 with complementary consulting services, maintenance and support agreements available from Calpont.
For more information, visit http://www.calpont.com, join the community http://www.infinidb.org, or follow @Calpont and @InfiniDB.
Mark Peterson, Peterson Communications for Calpont, http://www.calpont.com, +1 (831) 626-4400, [email protected]
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