Website www.infobright.com Founder Dominik Slezak Type of business Private | Headquarters Toronto Founded 2005 | |
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Industry Enterprise Software & Database Management & Data Warehousing Products Infobright Enterprise Edition (formerly Brighthouse), Infobright Community Edition Profiles | ||
Introducing infobright the open source analytic database company
Infobright is a commercial provider of column-oriented relational database software with a focus in machine-generated data. The company will bring to market a new data analytics product in the latter half of 2016. The company's head office is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Most of its research and development is based in Warsaw, Poland. Support personnel are located in various offices around the world.
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History
Infobright was founded in 2005. It became an open source company in September 2008, when it issued the first free release of its software. At the same time its community site was launched. The company is funded by venture capital investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Information Venture Partners.
In 2009, Infobright was recognized as MySQL's Partner of the Year, and a Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management and Integration. It is also certified for use with Sun's Unified Storage product line. It is the assignee of published patent applications on data compression, query optimization, and data organization.
In February 2016, Gartner recognized Infobright as a Challenger in the Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics space alongside HPE, Amazon Web Services, 1010data and MarkLogic. In July 2016, Infobright officially transitioned away from its open source community edition to focus on their OEM and direct customer markets.
Infobright Enterprise Edition (IEE)
Infobright's database software is integrated with MySQL, but with its own proprietary data storage and query optimization layers.
Infobright uses a columnar approach to database design. When data is loaded into a table, it is broken into the groups of 216 rows, further decomposed into separate data packs for each of the columns. By breaking each column by the same number of rows, it maintains its integrity with other columns for the same entry. For example, row 1, column 1 is the first entry in the first datapack for column 1. Row 1 in column 2 is the first entry in the first datapack for column 2.
Each data pack is separately compressed to approximately 20:1 on average.
Infobright Enterprise Edition is available in PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Knowledge Grid A metadata layer (called the Database Knowledge Grid) stores compact information about the contents and relationships between the data packs, replacing the concept of a traditional database index.
Query execution The optimizer uses theories of rough sets and Granular Computing by categorizing which data packs need to be decompressed and by refining such categorization using partial results obtained from the Knowledge Grid and already decompressed data packs.
Infobright Approximate Query (IAQ)
IAQ is Infobright's newest product announced as of Feb 2016. Leveraging IEE's statistical foundation, IAQ is purpose-built to provide rapid insight for organizations with multi-terabytes to petabytes of data with minimal infrastructure. It utilizes statistical modelling to ingest, interrogate, and materialize data, without the need to store atomic data, and therefore significantly reduce query time. IAQ uses ingest agents, modeled after IEE's Data Load Processor (DLP) technology.