Data Warehouse Appliances - Apples to Apples

I’ve listened to several appliance web casts in the past 2 weeks, and have increased my knowledge of the growing data warehouse appliance market.  One thing that is clear to me is that the landscape has changed considerably in the past 2+ years, with the addition of several vendors providing a “full stack” similar to Teradata and Netezza.  There are also a number of vendors that are providing “software appliances” (to borrow a phrase from Philip Russom, TDWI analyst), by customizing database, operating system, and integration software with either off-the-shelf hardware components (Intel, AMD) or partnering with hardware vendors such as Sun.  And while I’ve gotten bits and pieces of information on this topic from a number of sources, I haven’t seen a full side by side comparison of these products. 

So I pulled together a data warehouse appliance spreadsheet that compares vendors along several categories, including applications, software, architecture (basically SMP or MPP) and hardware.  I’ve also attempted to group the vendors, using “full stack”, “database”, and “hardware” as my initial cut.  I intend this to be a work in progress, and will provide updates as I add new vendors and refine information for existing vendors.  Once I get a complete set of data, I will provide a summary of the dataset.

Please feel free to send me an e-mail if you see incorrect or missing information, or think I should add a vendor to the mix.

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