DATAllegro

DATAllegro was a company that specialized in data warehousing appliances. It was founded by Stuart Frost in 2003 inspired by and as a competitor to Data warehouse appliance pioneer Netezza.[1] DATAllegro - like Netezza - used open source software stack (Ingres DBMS running on Linux). Microsoft announced it had acquired DATAllegro as of September 2008.[2] SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is the successor product to DATAllegro on Windows Server using a version of the SQL Server database engine.[3]

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References

  1. ^ DATAllegro founder Stuart Frost on DATAllegro
  2. ^ "Microsoft Closes Acquisition of DATAllegro". Sep 16, 2008.
  3. ^ "Microsoft ships the final Technology Preview for SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse". 2 Apr 2010. DATAllegro technology as Parallel Data Warehouse now runs on Windows Server and SQL Server