ParAccel Founded
ParAccel, Inc. was founded by Barry Zane and Michael Stonebraker. They developed a high-performance, massively parallel processing (MPP) columnar analytic database.
Significance
ParAccel's technology would later become the foundational core upon which Amazon Redshift was built, providing the crucial columnar storage and MPP architecture for analytical queries.
Key facts
- Date
- 2005-01-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Andover, Massachusetts, USA