Infobright Blog

Wabi-sabi is described as the japanese approach to finding the beauty and simplicity of objects that are also not quite finished. Everyday, as I think about Infobright, I get a strong sense of wabi-sabi; a sense of grace and simplicity that is a continuous work in  progress to bring about continued capabilities and improvements in our product. In every aspect of our software efforts, we always acknowledge that there is always more work to do, while also doing our best to keep things simple. After all, this is one of the key wabi-sabi like capabilities of our product. No indexes, up and running quickly, the ability to scale to handle large data sets, strong compression, mysql compatibility, all key wabi-sabi like features of Infobright. 

Just two weeks in, I fully appreciate the awesome power in Infobright’s core technology.  The theory and logic is incredible, and the performance is superb.  I aim to help continue to build a great community relationship with our commercial and open source customers and to ensure your overall experience while using our products and visiting our site.

Our brand is quite simple: Infobright’s open-source, analytics database utilizes columnar and proprietary knowledge-grid technology that removes costly indexing and pre-tuning and requires very little hardware, capital, and LOE.  Our superior technology provides wow-excitement, and our community will soon undergo a new wow-experience.

As a team, we will strive to grow our open-source community, to foster discussion within our community, and to evangelize the power of Infobright’s core technology.  We will listen.  We will advocate.  We will take the concerns and questions of our community and champion the cause.  As a personal evangelical user of Infobright, I will personally aim to prove ICE’s power and convert skeptics.

As the Oracle told Neo¹ – “You got the gift, but it looks like you’re waiting for something.”

We are continuing to invest in growing our open-source community to deliver that compelling, “wow” experience.  Through input from our community, (1) we will restructure and revitalize the ICE community forum.  In addition, (2) we will create ways for users to experience the technology in action.  Finally, (3) we will crusade to grow the community to promote that required strong user-to-user engagement.

Each of these actions deserves their own blog post.  Over the next two weeks, we will expand each item and solicit your feedback.  Regardless of your past experience with Infobright, your comments will be critical to the success of our initiative to build our community.

- Jeff

Deliver analytic excellence.

¹Oracle (Character) Quotes, The.  IMDB Database.  http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000765/quotes.  24 Sep 2010.