DATAllegro explained

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]

See also

• Data warehouse appliance

External links

• Official Website
• Web site: DATAllegro - Is It All Hype? .

Notes and References

1. http://www.beyeblogs.com/DATAllegro/archive/2008/04/who_i_am_and_why_im_here.php DATAllegro founder Stuart Frost on DATAllegro
2. Web site: Microsoft Closes Acquisition of DATAllegro. Sep 16, 2008.
3. Web site: Microsoft ships the final Technology Preview for SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. DATAllegro technology as Parallel Data Warehouse now runs on Windows Server and SQL Server. 2 Apr 2010.