InfiniDB™ is available in two forms, as the open source InfiniDB Community Edition and as the MPP-capable InfiniDB Enterprise Edition. Building on the solid foundation of InfiniDB Community Edition, InfiniDB Enterprise Edition adds massive parallel processing capabilities for unlimited and dynamic scale-out performance, global system administration from a single console, database and operating system monitoring, automatic notifications and alerts, and production support for a future-proof, enterprise-class analytics platform.
For a more detailed look at the difference between InfiniDB Community Edition and InfiniDB Enterprise Edition, please review the following chart:
| InfiniDB Edition | InfiniDB Community Edition | InfiniDB Enterprise Edition |
| License | ||
|
GPL |
Commercial |
|
| Core Server Features | ||
| MySQL front end |
Yes |
Yes |
| Column-oriented |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multi-threaded engine (queries/writes uses all CPU’s/cores on box) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Logical data compression |
Yes |
Yes |
| High-Speed bulk loader w/ no blocking queries while loading |
Yes |
Yes |
| Crash-recovery |
Yes |
Yes |
| Transaction support (ACID compliant) |
Yes |
Yes |
| INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE (DML) support |
Yes |
Yes |
| No indexing necessary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Automatic vertical (column) and logical horizontal partitioning of data |
Yes |
Yes |
| MVCC support – snapshot read (readers don’t block writers) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Alter Table with online add column capability |
Yes |
Yes |
| High concurrency supported |
Yes |
Yes |
| Terabyte database capable |
Yes |
Yes |
| Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) Features | ||
| MPP, multi-node scale out option |
No |
Yes |
| Distributed, shared nothing data cache |
No |
Yes |
| Automatic failover (I/O node level) |
No |
Yes |
| Concurrency scale-out (user level) |
No |
Yes |
| Multi-node software patch management/provisioning |
No |
Yes |
| Distributed hash joins |
No |
Yes |
| Ancillary Software | ||
| Centralized database and operating system monitoring |
No |
Yes |
| Notifications and alerts |
No |
Yes |
| SNMP trap support |
No |
Yes |
| Support |
Online Community Forums |
Formal Production Support |
| Consultative support |
No |
Yes |
| Hot-fix builds |
No |
Yes |
| Bug escalation privilege |
No |
Yes |
| Cost | ||
|
Free |
Per module pricing |
