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Very impressive technology, but is there an open source version? Even a limited one? That one can try on something more modest than 100 grand's worth of pro GPUs?

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There is not an open source version as yet, but you can spin up these instances on an hourly basis on AWS https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M0ZY2OV?qid=1475606... and on IBM Softlayer.

thanks, but at 5 bucks an hour for an entry-level instance (single 12GB GPU) I'm looking at 120 bucks a day if I don't want to constantly re-upload my dataset into MapD (a very slow operation judging by Mark Litwintschik's posts linked by you). That's a very very high price for such a modest hardware configuration, not to mention the more credible one which goes for an eye-watering 30 bucks an hour ie not much change from a grand a day. Not for us startup folk, clearly.

I have to say it seems your pricing for such a new entrant and before having built share, is bound to attract very stiff newcomer competition. "Interesting" business model.

MapD has a persistent store and normally customers would keep that on an EBS volume, so they don't have to reload their data every time they spin up an AWS instance.

fair enough but software cost 3-4x the (already high) hourly hardware cost seems excessive.

If you find this too pricey, then build a cheaper or free competitor.

very interesting. Do you have a link to documentation? I'd like to take a look before I try it out.

You could try BlazingDB if what you are interested is the gpu powered SQL component. There is a free community edition available here: https://docs.blazingdb.com/docs/quickstart-guide-to-blazingd...

You can install this on AWS or on your own infrastructure (I run this on my laptop for example).

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