About Us

Kickfire is scaling down the cost and complexity of high performance data warehousing. Our analytic appliance delivers the best performance per dollar, watt and cubic foot available in the industry today. Our analytic appliances are ideal for almost any departmental data warehousing needs.

Kickfire’s analytic appliances are designed around three key elements: the industry's first parallel processing SQL Chip; a highly efficient compressed column store database; and an open source software stack. In combination, the result is industry leading performance, small footprint, and low power consumption.

The SQL Chip at the core of Kickfire analytic appliances radically alters the economics of query processing by packing the power of 10s of CPUs into a single chip. Just as NVIDIA moved graphics processing from software to hardware, Kickfire has done the same for database operations. This disruptive innovation facilitates tremendous improvements in speed and reductions in cost and power. With Kickfire, the MySQL data warehouse market now has a fully functional, load-and-go analytics appliance that rivals any of the proprietary database appliances or specialized analytic databases in the world. And there is no expensive hardware buildout or complex tuning required.

Our focus on standard MySQL technologies allows our customers to leverage the entire MySQL ecosystem including business intelligence tools, backup and recovery systems, network monitoring tools, and the rich talent pool and vibrant community MySQL has become known for. With 12 million active installations, MySQL is the world's most popular open source database and its adoption is accelerating.

Kickfire was founded in 2006 by Raj Cherabuddi and Joseph Chamdani, two proven entrepreneurs with more than 50 issued patents. Prior to Kickfire, they founded Sanera Systems, a startup that focused on mission-critical, high-performance SAN switches. Sanera was successfully acquired by McDATA, a public company with $800M in annual revenues, and is now part of Brocade.

Backed by blue chip investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Mayfield Fund and Pinnacle Ventures, Kickfire is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.