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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: osc!aflynn@amd.com (Anthony Flynn) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Versant ODBMS on NEXTSTEP Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Versant ODBMS Available on NEXTStep ----------------------------------- Despite rumors to the contrary, Versant continues to offer the state of the art ODBMS for NEXT computers. At Versant, we build, sell and support the following for NeXT computers: VERSANT ODBMS. A high-performance, distributed ODBMS for client-server environments. Transparent interfaces are provided from C, Objective-C, and C++, with others in the works. Versant also runs on Sun, IBM, HP, SGI, Sequent, NCR, DEC, and Bull platforms. An OS/2 port has just been released. Other platforms will be announced soon. VERSANT VIEW. A powerful GUI-based administrative which allows the DBA complete control over the contents of a Versant database. Versant View contains a powerful query engine and data analysis utilities based on set theory. VERSANT is designed with three goals in mind: * Scalability. Goal is to let users scale across hardware (uni- and symmetric multi-processors), scale across nodes (transparent relocation of data, sometimes called object migration), scale across platforms (from desktop to big servers), scale across time (dynamic schema evolution so you can modify schema without unload/reload), and "scale" across different networking configurations (host-based to client-server to "disconnected" client-server (e.g., laptops)). * Performance. Object databases are fast. When we moved from NDBMS to RDBMS, everyone took a big performance hit to gain relational flexibility. Many people expect a similar hit when they move from RDBMS to ODBMS. It's just the opposite: ODBMSs -- all of them -- are fast. While some vendors optimize for isolated users with lots of smaller objects (e.g., CAD), Versant is optimized for many users, in the distributed environments, with larger objects. Versant uses object-level locking (like row-level locking in RDBMSs, such as Oracle) to reduces contention. In addition, VERSANT does well on basic tasks like online space compaction and re-use. * Fast application development. Goal is to let people build apps in just about any OO language (some ODBMSs are hard-linked to a single language) that they want to use -- C, C++, Smalltalk, Object SQL, and others. They can build apps using Versant's C++ Tools (in conjunction with tools like ObjectCenter), tools from third parties, or a combination of the two. Versant has an open tools philosophy, and offers its own tools to fill a specific niche in the C++ world. If you have any more questions, you can reach Versant at: 415-329-7500, or 1-800-VERSANT, in the US. Our Mailing address is: Versant Object Technology 4500 Bohannon Drive, suite 200 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Additional e-mail enquiries should be sent to: info@osc.com The address of Versant's European office is: Versant Europe Siriusdreet 2 P.O. Box 333 2130 All Hoofddrop The Netherlands (31) 2503-66373 Victoria Autrey Versant Object Technology info@osc.com (US) 415-329-7589
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