After reading Jonathan Levin's article about infobright I decided I had to try Infobright. So I downloaded the 32-bit tarball. Normally I would have gone for a 64-bit build but those only came in RPM and DEB flavour. Then I tried to run infobright community edition (ICE) in a MySQL Sandbox, but that failed as the resolveip utility failed to give an answer for localhost. error while creating grant tables Neither host 'daniel-thinkpad' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with /home/dveeden/opt/mysql/4.0.7-ice/bin/resolveip Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with the --force option Then I used docker. This went really smooth. You can grab my docker file here . After creating a container with infobright I tried to insert some data... as I thought only UPDATE and DELETE were prohibited with ICE. But it turned out that also INSERT and ALTER TABLE .. ...