This seems to be a interesting applicance - a pure MySQL server.

There is not enough information available at this stage to make mw want to buy one (what OS, how do you back up, how do you scale??) - but still a interesting development

Kickfire Database ApplianceData 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.PerformanceHigh Performance with Less EffortKickfire delivers complex query performance 10-100X faster than a traditional RDBMS. At the core of the appliance is the world's first SQL chip that uses parallel, pipelined data flow to deliver the power of tens of high-end, general purpose CPUs. With large on-board memory, compressed columnar storage, automatic index creation and a SQL chip-aware query optimizer that rewrites queries for fast hardware-based execution, Kickfire redefines high-performance query processing without relying on hardware buildouts or complex tuning.

[From Kickfire]

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