Aginity Big Data Research Lab

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 $10,000 in commodity hardware and $15,000 per terabyte for database software. This is to test how close the lab can get to a $2 million data warehouse from 5 years ago for just $10,000-$20,000. The lab contains several large databases and tests complex queries, analytics without pre-aggregation, and MapReduce capabilities on its SUSE Linux platform.