The document summarizes Aginity's "Big Data" research lab which was launched in March 2009. The lab aims to build a 10 terabyte massively parallel processing always-on data warehouse using commodity hardware, open source operating system, and leading database software for under $10,000 in hardware costs and $15,000 per terabyte for the data warehouse software. The lab tests large databases, complex queries, MapReduce indexing, and in-database analytics on clusters of off-the-shelf servers running open source Linux.