Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Data warehouse appliance" in English language version.
Teradata effectively established the DW appliance market a quarter-century ago when it rolled out the first in a long line of preconfigured, preoptimized solutions that combine CPUs, storage, software, and database to address the most demanding analytical and decision support requirements
DATAllegro has a site at Sears. Sears uses [the appliance] as a front end to their Teradata warehouse to calculate aggregates. So when they want to do slice-and-dice, how many we sold in which stores and of what color, they use the appliance...I think [appliances] could be a disruptive technology for Teradata
But for all practical purposes, the first two significant "database machine" vendors were Britton-Lee and Teradata. And since Britton-Lee eventually sold out to Teradata (after a brief name change to ShareBase), Teradata is entitled to whatever historical glory accrues from having innovated the database management appliance category.
Teradata effectively established the DW appliance market a quarter-century ago when it rolled out the first in a long line of preconfigured, preoptimized solutions that combine CPUs, storage, software, and database to address the most demanding analytical and decision support requirements
