Kickfire Overview
Kickfire provides the first highperformance, easy to use database appliance for the burgeoning MySQL market. Based on a patented SQL chip that packs the power of tens of CPUs into an exceptionally small, lowpower form factor—Kickfire delivers a quantum leap in performance efficiency avoiding the hardware build out, power, and space costs of today's data warehouse and database offerings. By...More»
Kickfire provides the first highperformance, easy to use database appliance for the burgeoning MySQL market. Based on a patented SQL chip that packs the power of tens of CPUs into an exceptionally small, lowpower form factor—Kickfire delivers a quantum leap in performance efficiency avoiding the hardware build out, power, and space costs of today's data warehouse and database offerings. By delivering astoundingly fast query performance out of the box, Kickfire enables organizations to use MySQL for demanding business intelligence, reporting, and analysis rather than migrating to costly, nonopen source alternatives. Kickfire appliances scale from gigabytes to terabytes and are based on commodity hardware and Linux. They leverage existing storage as well as the openness of MySQL and its entire ecosystem to ensure compatibility and
rapid deployment. Kickfire is backed by three of the bestknown venture capital firms: Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and The Mayfield Fund.«Less
Key People
Management
- Jyotin Gautam, Director of Software Products
- Kapil Surlaker, Software Engineer
- Ravi Krishnamurthy, Chief Software Architect
- Krishnan Meiyyappan, staff engineer
- Steven Dille, VP Marketing
- Karl Van Den Bergh, VP Business Development
- Joseph Chamdani, CTO
- Hal Takahara, Sr. Staff Engineer
- Bruce Armstrong, Chairman and CEO
Board of Directors
Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 07/30/2008 | Series B | 20M | Unknown |
Products
| Name: | Kickfire Database Appliance |
| Product URL: | http://www.kickfire.com/content/view/7/8/ |
| Description: | Data warehousing solutions have long struggled with the trade offs between performance, ease-of-use and economics. Today, to achieve high performance, ease of use and economics must be compromised; to build a solution at low cost, performance, ongoing ease of use and flexibility must be compromised. Not any more. Kickfire database appliances bring together hardware and software innovations that deliver high-performance database queries without any trade offs. By combining the ease of use of MySQL with patented hardware and state-of-the-art software technology, Kickfire is able to deliver high-end performance without the expense and complexity of other solutions. |
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