Kickfire Enters into MySQL Enterprise Agreement with Sun

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Kickfire Brings Powerful Purpose-Built Analytic Appliance to the MySQL World

Santa Clara, CA – October 14, 2008 –

Kickfire™, Inc. today

announced that it has entered into a global multi-year MySQL

Enterprise™ data warehouse agreement with Sun Microsystems. Under the

terms, Kickfire's Series 2000 and 3000 analytic appliances will include

a MySQL Enterprise subscription, providing customers with a fully

integrated, plug-and-play solution. Kickfire will provide customers a

single point of contact for both hardware and MySQL™ technical support,

ensuring a seamless end-user experience.

Sun's MySQL Enterprise database subscription is a comprehensive set of production-tested

software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services -- designed to help corporate

database developers, DBAs and other customers to deliver optimal performance, reliability,

security, and uptime for their critical MySQL applications.

Kickfire's small form factor analytic appliance is designed for the

vibrant MySQL market to break through today's performance, data

scalability, and costly hardware buildout problems. The

appliance, which transparently integrates MySQL Enterprise, Kickfire's

pluggable MySQL analytic

storage engine and the industry's only SQL chip, delivers world

record-breaking performance and

price-performance as demonstrated on the rigorous TPC-H* data

warehousing benchmark.

Kickfire took number one position in both non-clustered system

performance and

price/performance – beating all other column store analytic databases,

relational databases and

data warehouse appliances on the 300GB and 100GB tests.

"Before Kickfire, MySQL customers who wanted high-performance analytics had to choose

between expensive manual tuning, adding hardware or migrating to a proprietary data warehouse

appliance or column store database engine," commented Raj Cherabuddi, president and founder

of Kickfire. "These solutions can be extremely expensive and none can match the query

performance speeds of a Kickfire appliance at our mass market prices."

In addition to high performance, Kickfire's appliance offers unrivaled integration with existing

MySQL environments. Kickfire integrates hardware and software into a simple plug-and-play

appliance, increasing the ease-of-use of MySQL and streamlining the customer purchase,

installation and support processes. Kickfire also features built-in MySQL data migration utilities

that are not found in other offerings, to greatly simplify initial product setup and speed time-tovalue.

Once installed, Kickfire’s appliance does not rely on pre-computed results. Instead, Kickfire

delivers its fast performance on complex ad hoc queries across a wide variety of schemas and

SQL commands, simplifying administration and enhancing user value.

"Industry demand for database solutions that accelerate query performance at an affordable cost

is at an all-time high which is why data warehousing continues to grow dramatically as a use case

for MySQL," said Mark Burton, vice president, MySQL Global Software Practice, Sun

Microsystems. "Kickfire's analytic appliance is a unique approach that brings data warehousing

and BI to a mass market of users."

About TPC-H

The TPC Benchmark™H (TPC-H) is an industry standard decision support benchmark defined

and maintained by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC). The TPC is a non-profit

corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to

disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. A vendor is required to

go through a stringent testing and audit process prior to officially publishing TPC-H results. More

information is available at http://www.tpc.org.

About Kickfire

Kickfire provides the first high-performance, easy-to-use analytic appliance for the burgeoning

MySQL market. Based on a patented SQL chip that packs the power of tens of CPUs into an

exceptionally small, low-power form factor, Kickfire delivers a quantum leap in performance

efficiency -- avoiding the hardware build out, power, and space costs of today's data warehouse

and database offerings. By delivering astoundingly fast query performance out of the box,

Kickfire’s plug and play appliance enables organizations to use MySQL for demanding

business intelligence, reporting, and analysis. Kickfire appliances scale from gigabytes to

terabytes and are based on Linux and commodity hardware. They leverage existing storage as

well as the openness of MySQL and its entire ecosystem to ensure compatibility and rapid

deployment. Kickfire is backed by blue chip venture capital firms: Accel Partners, Greylock

Partners, The Mayfield Fund and Pinnacle Ventures. For more information, please visit

www.kickfire.com.

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* As of October 14, 2008, the Kickfire Database Appliance

Series 2400 delivers 54,895 QphH@300GB (Queries per hour on the TPC-H

benchmark) propelling Kickfire to world leadership in query performance

(non-clustered systems) on the 300GB TPC-H benchmark. Kickfire is also

number one in price/performance at $0.89/QphH@300GB USD on the 300GB

benchmark. Moreover, Kickfire delivers this record breaking performance

with a 3 year total system cost of only $48,790 USD. Kickfire's price

performance metric can be found at

http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp. The

Kickfire Database Appliance is in beta and will be available October

14, 2008.

TPCH, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the TPC. For additional information on the TPCH

benchmark, please visit the Transaction Processing Performance Council's Web site at http://www.tpc.org.

Kickfire is a trademark of Kickfire, Inc.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, MySQL, and MySQL Enterprise are

registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the United States and

other countries.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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