New Database Appliance from Kickfire Propels Sun's MySQL to Number One in Price-Performance
Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems today announced Transaction Processing Performance Council ? H (TPC-H) benchmark results that break previous price-performance records. The benchmarks were run on Kickfire's new database appliance, which is based on Sun's MySQL™ database. The Kickfire Database Appliance demonstrates the speed of high-performance commercial database systems at a fraction of the cost with an exceptionally small, low-power footprint and the hallmark ease-of-use of MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.

Kickfire is formally launching this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California.


Read more at: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2008_13.html.