Infobright and MySQL AB have signed a partnership agreement as part of the MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program. Infobright has completed the technical integration of MySQL with its innovative BrightHouse database engine. Launched in April, the MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program is a way for third-party ISVs and open source community developers to produce high-quality database engines for the millions of MySQL database users worldwide.

BrightHouse is a highly-compressed engine designed for archiving data from multi-terabyte data warehouses. Prior to entering this partnership, Infobright evaluated various open source database vendors on business and technical merit -- and MySQL AB won on both counts.

"We're excited to be working with MySQL," says Miriam Tuerk, President & CEO of Infobright. "Through our MySQL partnership, we have significantly increased our engine's capabilities this year to support BI and ETL tools. Integration with MySQL has delivered maturity, robustness, and feature-rich RDBMS functionality to BrightHouse."

BrightHouse compresses data at an average ratio of 10:1 (peak compression ratios exceed 30:1). For example, BrightHouse compresses 30 TB into 3 TB whilst maintaining immediate and comprehensive query capability. Additionally, BrightHouse operates on commodity-based Intel hardware thereby allowing installation on existing, low-cost platforms.

"Infobright's BrightHouse engine is a great complement to the MySQL database server and our other storage engines," says Mark Burton, MySQL AB's executive vice president of worldwide sales. "Corporations can realize significant IT cost savings by archiving data from their existing data warehouses using BrightHouse's advanced compression technologies."