DATAllegro was a company that specialized in

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appliances. It was founded by Stuart Frost in 2003 inspired by and as a competitor to

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pioneer

Netezza IBM Netezza (pronounced ne-teez-a) is a subsidiary of American technology company IBM that designs and markets high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics applications for the most demanding analytic uses including enterpr ...

. DATAllegro - like Netezza - used open source software stack (

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DBMS running on

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announced it had acquired DATAllegro as of September 2008. SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is the successor product to DATAllegro on Windows Server using a version of the SQL Server database engine.

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