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May 15, 2014

InfiniDB and MicroStrategy Announce Alliance

FRISCO, Tex., May 15 — InfiniDB, a leading provider of high-performance analytic data platforms, and MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, today announced that InfiniDB analytics platform is certified for being compatible with, and optimized for, the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform.

“We are delighted that InfiniDB has embraced our Technology Partner Program,” said Paul Zolfaghari, President, MicroStrategy Incorporated. “We’re seeing an increased demand from customers and partners to leverage Hadoop. Our alliance with InfiniDB with its SQL-on-Hadoop query engine is a natural fit and extension,” Zolfaghari added.

MicroStrategy seamlessly connects with InfiniDB to provide a powerful way to model, analyze, and create dashboards and schedule reports on large number Big Data types supported by the InfiniDB query engine. InfiniDB is 100-percent open source, MySQL accessible, and available on premise, as well as InfiniDB for the Cloud, and InfiniDB for Apache Hadoop. MicroStrategy Analytics Platform allows for deep analysis with advanced visualizations of enterprise data, including streaming real-time sources. The MicroStrategy Analytics Platform allows organizations to store, access and visualize massive amounts of data to make better-informed business decisions, increase revenue, streamline operations, improve situational awareness, and mitigate risk.

“InfiniDB is a primary choice for companies looking to process large, powerful queries and data visualizations. As organizations capture more data streams and data types – and the demands of data consumption increase – they are looking for complementary solutions like the high performance InfiniDB columnar database and the flexible and powerful MicroStrategy Analytics Platform,” said Jim Tommaney, chief technology officer at InfiniDB.

The InfiniDB platform is a fourth-generation massive parallel processing (MPP) column-oriented data technology. Known for its rapid implementation, simplicity, and performance, InfiniDB is well-suited for organizations that have an increasing need for real-time, Big Data analytics. The platform quickly scales and provides IT with the flexibility it needs to deploy Big Data applications with the confidence that existing investments in hardware, software, and know-how that will grow with their data.

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