“Calpont’s InfiniDB product and licensing strategy appears to strike a good balance between the open source Community Edition, which enables scale-up without formal support, and the Enterprise version which enables users to both scale-up and scale-out over time with growing data volumes. The columnar-based, MPP architecture provides a new data warehouse alternative for current MySQL customers and those new to the technology. We also see wisdom in Calpont’s strategy of targeting large enterprise data warehouse users looking for alternatives for their data marts."