LucidDB (aka “the best database for BI you don’t know about”) has a commercial version on the way at last. Nick Goodman, a longtime user active in the Eigenbase and other related open source communities, has stepped in. Nick has a consulting practice that builds BI implementations (many using Lucid and Pentaho), and he’s nowContinue reading “More From The Low End: DynamoDB is the New Lucid”
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Meanwhile, At The Low End, Infobright is in Transition
I’ve been busy with the big boys for the past few weeks, but open-source offerings are in the news and demand comment. Open source DW software provider Infobright has a new CEO, Mark Burton and though he’s an “interim,” he’s hands-on and has the pedigree to help get some traction.
Pentaho Goes “Open Core” With Lucidera OLAP Viewer
Open-source BI vendor Pentaho has purchased technology rights from failed BI SaaS vendor LucidEra, and plans to combine LucidEra’s Clearview, a reporting and analysis OLAP front end for non-technical users, with the Mondrian open source OLAP engine used by Pentaho Analysis, in a new offering called Pentaho Analyzer Enterprise Edition, available both on-premise and on-demand. Clearview willContinue reading “Pentaho Goes “Open Core” With Lucidera OLAP Viewer”
Kickfire Disrupts DW Economics, Targets Mainstream ADBMS Opportunities
In just 18 months, Kickfire has established itself as one of the most intriguing of the ADBMS insurgents. It espouses a radical go-to-market strategy: target the overwhelming majority of the market in the sub-5Tb space, and let others battle over who’s doing best at the top end, fighting over a small group of prospects. KickfireContinue reading “Kickfire Disrupts DW Economics, Targets Mainstream ADBMS Opportunities”
What’s An Eigenbase?
The open source community is remarkable in many ways. For me, one of the most significant aspects of it is exactly that: it IS a community. It’s composed of people who communicate and share in deep and productive ways. One of the most interesting manifestations of that spirit I’ve run across is the Eigenbase project,Continue reading “What’s An Eigenbase?”
Infobright Bids to Anchor An Open Source DW Ecosystem
I recently sat down for a talk with Miriam Tuerk, CEO of Infobright – an open source, commodity hardware-based analytic database (ADBMS) vendor focused on the data warehousing market. Infobright is another of the leaders in the open source information management wave IT Market Strategy has been tracking. Founded in 2006, Infobright has assembled aContinue reading “Infobright Bids to Anchor An Open Source DW Ecosystem”
Balanced Insight – Automating BI Design to Deployment
Balanced Insight, a small startup founded as a consultancy in 2003, sees a market opening in automating and speeding up the beginning stages of BI projects. They are not alone in thinking so: AMR has asserted that 43.7% of typical BI project cost is labor (approximately $250k to $500k.) False precision aside, the argument that theContinue reading “Balanced Insight – Automating BI Design to Deployment”