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