Infobright Unveils Version 3.5 for Enterprise and Open Source Editions

Infobright, a company specializing in open source analytic databases, has announced the availability of version 3.5 of Infobright Enterprise Edition (IEE) and Infobright Community Edition (ICE).

The new version comes with significant query performance improvements as well as a number of new features, including remote data loading capabilities. Specific enhancements to IEE include high-availability replication, improved workload management and database monitoring -- boosting the database's performance, availability and ease of administration.

The company also announced its plans to introduce the Distributed Load Processor (News - Alert) (DLP) as an add-on to IEE, which can deliver load speeds of up to one TB per hour depending on the number of servers used.

Tests performed by Infobright on IEE and ICE 3.5 have demonstrated performance gains of up to 400 percent for general queries, and gains of between 20 to 400 percent for queries that are more complex.

"With every new release of IEE and ICE, Infobright delivers performance enhancements and new capabilities without placing any administrative burden on the database administrators or developers managing the solution," Susan Davis, vice president of Marketing and Product Management for Infobright, said in a statement.

"We continue to focus on providing a high-performance analytic database and open-source innovation that can be implemented in hours, with much less work and at lower cost than other databases," Davis added.

The new release also gives users the ability to load data from a remote machine and thus offload potentially heavy ETL processing to a separate server -- ensuring more CPU resources are available for query processing. In addition, both IEE and ICE may optionally use the MySQL query cache, resulting in further performance gains for repeated execution of queries.

Specific enhancements to IEE, Infobright's flagship enterprise solution, include high-availability replication. Using MySQL statement-based replication, this feature provides support for scale-out, spreading the load among multiple servers to improve concurrency and performance. It includes support for both master/slave, master/multi-slave configurations, delivering a simple approach to high-availability and redundancy. It also improves data security and backup, allowing the replication process to be paused for backup services running on the slave.

Other enhancements include improved workload management and database monitoring.

With more customers requiring near-real time data loading of increasingly large volumes of data, Infobright will be releasing an add-on product to IEE that will deliver substantial load performance gains. The DLP will remotely process and compress data, then transfer the compressed data to the IEE database.

TMC (News - Alert) recently reported that IMImobile, the trusted technology partner to leading mobile operators, media companies and enterprises, selected Infobright Enterprise Edition (IEE) to use within its DaVinci Evolved Services platform. DaVinci is part of the company's suite of managed mobile services offerings to its customers, and IMImobile (News - Alert) will use IEE to quickly process the large amount of network and usage data that is generated from its various platforms to provide innovative and personalized services to end users.