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InfiniDB

http://infinidb.org/

Contributed by Calpont, InfiniDB Community Edition provides a scale-up analytics database engine for your data warehousing, business intelligence and read-intensive application needs. Enabled via MySQL^TM and purpose-built for an analytical workload with column-oriented technology at its core, the multi-threaded capabilities of InfiniDB Community Edition fully encompass query, transactional support and bulk load operations.  So come on in, grab a download and get started.