History
Some consider Teradata's initial product as the first DW appliance — or Britton-Lee's (Note: Teradata acquired Britton Lee — renamed ShareBase — in June, 1990.) Others disagree, considering appliances as a "disruptive technology" for Teradata . Interest in the data warehouse appliance category is generally dated to the emergence of Netezza in the early 2000s.
As of 2009 a second generation of DW appliances has emerged, marking the move to mainstream vendor integration. IBM integrated its InfoSphere Warehouse (formerly DB2 Warehouse) with its own servers and storage to create the IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse. Netezza introduced its TwinFin platform based on commodity IBM hardware. Other DW appliance vendors have also partnered with major hardware vendors to help bring their appliances to market. DATAllegro, prior to acquisition by Microsoft, partnered with EMC and Dell and implemented open-source Ingres on Linux. Greenplum has a partnership with Sun Microsystems and implements Greenplum Database (based on PostgreSQL) on Solaris using the ZFS file system. HP Neoview has a wholly owned solution and uses HP NonStop SQL. XtremeData offers a software stack that can be used to create a "virtual data-warehousing appliance" built on commodity hardware, on-premise or in the Cloud for "deep analytics" and data mining.
The market has also seen the emergence of data-warehouse bundles where vendors combine their hardware and database software together as a data warehouse platform. The Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative combines the Oracle Database with hardware from various computer manufacturers (Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, SGI and Sun Microsystems). Oracle's Optimized Warehouses offer pre-validated configurations and the database software comes pre-installed. In 2008 Oracle began offering a more classic appliance offering, the HP Oracle Database Machine, a jointly developed and co-branded platform that Oracle sells and supports and HP builds in configurations specifically for Oracle. In 2009, Oracle released a second-generation Exadata system, based on their newly acquired Sun Microsystems hardware.
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