Infobright has announced availability of its new open source data warehouse software, Infobright Community Edition (ICE). This enterprise-class, self-managing solution is an alternative to high-cost, high-maintenance data warehouse products.

Infobright is also launching www.infobright.org, the new community home and development portal for open source enthusiasts with corporate data warehouse needs. As part of Infobright's commitment to responsive development, and innovation, www.infobright.org will include links to product downloads and developer/user communities for a variety of open source database, business intelligence, and data warehouse projects.

The need for business analytics has grown across all industries, and has outpaced the technical expertise and budget of companies outside the Fortune 500. Designed for analytic applications, ICE is easy to use, simple to manage, and designed to handle data volumes from 500GB to 30TB. ICE combines a column-oriented database with a Knowledge Grid architecture to eliminate complexity. It also eliminates costly hardware infrastructure and the time-consuming manual processes required to build, tune, and maintain a data warehouse. ICE is integrated with Sun Microsystems' MySQL database, which delivers a scalable data warehouse platform for MySQL.