ParAccel Founded
ParAccel, a company focused on high-performance analytic databases, was founded. Its columnar, MPP architecture would become the foundation of Amazon Redshift.
Significance
This laid the technological groundwork for what would become Redshift, developing the core database engine that AWS would later acquire and productize.
Key facts
- Year
- 2005
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Andover, Massachusetts (later Boulder, Colorado)