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The InfiniDB Community website serves as a resource for those individuals and organizations that have a need or desire to develop a deeper understanding of InfiniDB, the column database from Calpont, and get started on a non-commercial analytical database project. On this community site you have access to technical forums, technical articles and documentation, and InfiniDB Community edition software.

InfiniDB Community edition software is built on the same code base as InfiniDB Enterprise. InfiniDB Community is designed for scale-up use on a single server instance, while InfiniDB Enterprise serves both scale-up and scale-out deployments, and, therefore has greater capabilities and features. Below is a summary of each product and the need they serve, followed by a detailed comparison of capabilities for each. This will enable you to choose the right product to start with for your specific application.

InfiniDB Product EditionInfiniDB CommunityInfiniDB Enterprise
Designed and licensed for
  • Single node, scale up workgroup projects, data marts
  • Single node, scale up workgroup projects, data marts
  • Scale-out MPP deployments for workgroup and enterprise projects, data warehouse database replacement
Key Functionality Summary
  • Column-oriented
  • MySQL front end
  • Multi threaded
  • High speed data loading
  • Automatic partitioning
  • Column-oriented
  • MySQL front end
  • Multi threaded
  • High speed data loading
  • Automatic partitioning
  • Partition Drop
  • UDF’s
  • Physical compression
  • MPP, multi-node scale-out
  • Distributed, Shared Nothing data cache
  • Auto Increment
  • Centralized database and operating system monitoring
  • Notifications and Alerts
  • INSERT INTO...SELECT FROM...
  • Views on InfiniDB Tables
InfiniDB Community Website
InfiniDB Enterprise Product Trial

For a more detailed look at the differences between InfiniDB Community and InfiniDB Enterprise editions, please refer the following table.

InfiniDB Product EditionInfiniDB CommunityInfiniDB Enterprise
License
  Calpont Source Calpont Commercial
Core Server Features
MySQL front end included included
Column-oriented included included
Multi-threaded engine (queries/writes uses all CPU’s/cores on box) included included
Logical data compression included included
High-Speed bulk loader w/ no blocking queries while loading included included
Crash-recovery included included
Transaction support (ACID compliant) included included
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE (DML) support included included
No indexing necessary included included
Automatic vertical (column) and logical horizontal partitioning of data included included
MVCC support – snapshot read (readers don’t block writers) included included
Alter Table with online add column capability included included
High concurrency supported included included
Terabyte database capable included included
Real-time Physical Compression Not included included
User Defined Functions (UDFs) Not included included
Partition Drop Not included included
INSERT INTO...SELECT FROM... Not included included
Views on InfiniDB Tables Not included included
Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) Features Not included included
  • MPP, multi-node scale out option
Not included included
  • Distributed, shared nothing data cache
Not included included
  • Automatic failover (I/O node level)
Not included included
  • Concurrency scale-out (user level)
Not included included
  • Multi-node software patch management/provisioning
Not included included
  • Distributed hash joins
Not included included
Ancillary Software Features Not included included
  • Centralized database and operating system monitoring
Not included included
  • Notifications and alerts
Not included included
SNMP trap support Not included included
Support Online Community Forums Formal Production Support
Consultative support Not included included
Hot-fix builds Not included included
Bug escalation privilege Not included included
Cost
  Free Contact Calpont
InfiniDB Community Website
InfiniDB Enterprise Product Trial