ParAccel Founded

ParAccel was founded with a mission to develop a high-performance analytical database, employing columnar storage and Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture. Their technology would later form the core of Amazon Redshift.

Significance

This event established the foundational technology and expertise that AWS would later acquire, proving the viability of a high-performance, scale-out database engine for analytics.

Key facts

Date
2005-01-01
Type
invention
Location
Andover, Massachusetts, USA