The Future of the Column Oriented Database Market: Q&A with Jeff Vogel

Jeff Vogel, President and CEO, CalpontWith the busy days that led up to the launch of InfiniDB 2.0, Calpont’s column oriented database software, just hours behind us, our CEO, Jeff Vogel, took a break to share his vision with me of the future of the database market. 

Here’s what


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InfiniDB 1.5 Now More Performance, More Platforms

We are pleased to let you know that we have made InfiniDB 1.5 available to our Enterprise customers.  Spending the last several months in development, our Community members have had an early peak at the functionality, but today marks the completion of the Generally Available version of InfiniDB Enterprise Edition Version 1.5.  You’ll find lots to like within the new version to include the following:

  • high-speed subqueries,
  • support for running on Microsoft Windows,
  • support for several new distributed functions,
  • enhanced support for UTF-8,
  • faster concurrent query and transaction performance,
  • increased table join performance

You’ll also notice that we have a new look to go along with our new software version, we hope you like it!  Take some time to check out the new site and to review some of the enhanced content including the Migrating from MySQL to InfiniDB and A Guide to Using InfiniDB on Windows white papers.

You’ll see a lot more changes and content additions coming, so be sure to check back often!


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2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo

We're pleased to be at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo.   If you happen to be at the show as well, we would certainly enjoy an opportunity to meet you so be sure to stop by the booth or to introduce yourself to any of the number of folks walking around in an InfiniDB shirt.  In addition to demos available at the booth, be sure to attend a couple of different sessions where we are presenting:

  • The Thinking Person's Guide to Data Warehouse Design - Wednesday, 10:50am in Ballroom C.
  • Scalable, Simple & Fast: Data Warehousing with InfiniDB - Wednesday, 3:05pm in Ballroom H.

Enjoy the show!


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Out with the "Row" and in with the New

It’s getting to be time for a little spring cleaning.  With apologies to our southern hemisphere readers, those of us in the northern half of the world are beginning to emerge from winter with a fresh list to-do list.  And at the top of more and


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"Open" for Business

Back in October of 2009, we launched the open source version of our analytics database, InfiniDB™ Community Edition, with the solid belief that bringing together a community around an open source project is a better way to build software.  And


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