文档介绍：ICE Release Notes Page 1 of 6 munity Edition 3. January 25, 2010 About ICE ICE is an open source software solution designed to deliver a scalable data warehouse optimized for analytic queries. The architecture delivers the following key benefits: ? Ideal for data vo lumes up to 50TB ? Market -leading pression (from 10:1 to over 40:1), which drastically reduces I/O (improving query performance) and results in significantly less storage than alternative solutions ? No licensing fees ? Fast response times for ad hoc ana lytic queries ? Query and load performance remains constant as the size of the database grows ? No requirement for specific schemas, . Star schema ? No requirement for materialized views, complex data partitioning strategies, or indexing ? Simple to implement a nd manage, requiring little administration ? Reduction in data warehouse capital and operational expenses by reducing the number of servers, the amount of storage needed and their associated maintenance costs, and a significant reduction in administrative co sts ? Runs on low cost, off -the -shelf hardware ? patible with major Business Intelligence tools such as Pentaho, JasperSoft, Cognos, Business Objects, and others ICE is designed to run high -performance ad hoc, complex queries on very large data sets wit hout the need of manual tuning, data partitioning, or index creation.