Kickfire Database Appliance Based on MySQL Breaks Data Warehousing Price-Performance
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008A new Kickfire Database Appliance based on Sun’s MySQL database has broken the dollar barrier of the Transaction Processing Performance Council - H (TPC-H) benchmarks, which is a first since the TPC-H benchmarks were instituted, coming in at just 70 cents for $/QphH in the 100GB category and claiming the number one spot in price-performance.
The Kickfire Database Appliance also took first place as the highest performing solution at 100GB in the non-clustered category. Based on the latest 100 GB TPC-H results, Kickfire achieved 49,228 QphH@100GB, the highest reported performance result on the 100GB benchmark in the non-clustered category. The price performance of this system was $0.70/QphH@100GB USD, which is the best in the industry. See Kickfire’s price performance metric.
Total system price over three years is $34,425. The system configuration was 1 x Kickfire Base Server Module, running CentOS 5.0 with: 2 Intel Xeon E5540 2.8GHz processors (each is 1 chip, 4 cores, 4 threads), 16 GB RAM, 8x 73 GB (15k rpm) internal SAS disks, 1 x Kickfire Query Processing Module, with 64 GB RAM. No cluster and total storage/database size ratio of 5.44 (total storage used = 544 GB; 1 GB = 230 bytes). Kickfire’s product is expected to be generally available October 14, 2008.
