Commercial
Yellowbrick Data was founded in 2014 by Neil Carson, Jim Dawson, and Mark Brinicombe to bring to market a next generation flash storage optimized data warehouse.
Yellowbrick’s first product used hardware consisting of analytic blades with both NVMe flash storage and high performance CPUs, with the blades connected by a high-performance internal network.
The system includes a purpose built execution engine with a primary column store, built in compression, as well as erasure encoding for reliability. The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse supports ANSI SQL and ACID reliability by using a Postgres based front end, allowing any database driver or external connector which supports Postgres to work without modification. The all-flash architecture claims performance and predictability benefits compared to other data warehouses.
In 2019, the company launched two new products – the Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse, and Yellowbrick Cloud DR.The Cloud Data Warehouse is a full service offering run by Yellowbrick using its own hardware available to applications running in AWS, Azure, and GCP public clouds through dedicated network links.This product allows the same speed and reliability advantages as the Data Warehouse, and complements the on-premises product. Cloud DR allows replication of on-premises datasets to the cloud service, or between cloud services at multiple physical locations.
