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Kickfire is an innovative company that has taken a dramatically different approach to achieving fast database query performance, developing the first easy-to-use and affordable high-performance analytic appliance for the MySQL market. With 11 million active installations, MySQL is the world's most popular open source database and its adoption is accelerating. As the amount of data stored in MySQL grows, so too does the requirement to analyze this data for business decision making. However, the technologies required for data warehousing and high-performance query and reporting within the leading proprietary databases such as Oracle and SQL Server don't exist in MySQL. Kickfire has the answer. By combining hardware and software innovations with the ease-of-use of the MySQL open source database, Kickfire brings to market an analytic appliance with unheard of performance, simplicity, and economics. At the core of every Kickfire appliance is a new SQL chip that radically alters the economics of query processing by packing the power of 10s of CPUs into a single chip. Just as NVIDIA moved graphics processing from software to hardware, Kickfire has done the same for database operations. This disruptive innovation facilitates tremendous improvements in speed and reductions in cost and power. With Kickfire, the MySQL market now has a fully functional, load-and-go analytic appliance that rivals any of the proprietary database appliances or specialized analytic databases in the world. And there is no expensive hardware buildout or complex tuning required. Kickfire was founded in 2006 by Raj Cherabuddi and Joseph Chamdani, two proven entrepreneurs with more than 50 issued patents. Prior to Kickfire, they founded Sanera Systems, a startup that focused on mission-critical, high-performance SAN switches. Sanera was successfully acquired by McDATA, a public company with $800M in annual revenues, and is now part of Brocade. Backed by blue chip investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Mayfield Fund and Pinnacle Ventures, Kickfire is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. |
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What People Are Saying
"For now, Kickfire is the best game in town when it comes to easy-to-deploy supercharged MySQL performance. Very cool."
Matt Asay,
The Open Road
"We started evaluating Kickfire because of the excellent price/performance they deliver for MySQL which we use extensively. After the initial tests showed performance improvements of over 100X for some of our most complex analytical queries, we decided to purchase our first system."
Senior VP,
$400M Technology Company
"Kickfire's analytic appliance is a unique approach that brings data warehousing and BI to a mass market of users."
Mark Burton,
Vice President,
MySQL Global Software Practice,
Sun Microsystems.
"Kickfire's MySQL appliance blows the doors (and price tags) off proprietary databases."
Matt Asay,
The Open Road
"What Kickfire wants to do is drastically bring the price of high-performance database servers down - to bring data mining technology to the everyman or the everycompany, as it were, not just the fortune 500."
Jason Perlow,
Blogger,
Tech Broiler
"In the global deployments of our largest customers, MySQL performance placed limitations on the volume of data we could analyze. Kickfire's MySQL Appliance delivered impressive 600X average performance improvements in our tests with much larger data volumes than we could previously support. We just placed an order."
Research Director,
Network Management Company
"Packaging Kickfire's breakthrough SQL chip and powerful database storage engine together into a unique MySQL-based appliance will be of great interest to users for cost-effective data warehouse and BI workloads."
Marten Mickos,
SVP,
Database Group,
Sun Microsystems.
"This product could turn the entire database world on its collective ear. It is a new paradigm for thinking about SQL and data warehousing and how best to utilize it."
B. Keith Murphy,
Editor,
MySQL Magazine
"Kickfire's focus on the emerging MySQL market proposes to dramatically scale back the costs of delivering breakthrough performance that many organizations seek to keep their BI initiatives on track."
Wayne Eckerson,
Director,
Education & Research,
TDWI