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News Release from: Logic Technology | Subject: McObject eXtremeDB
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 August 2007
Embedded database joins the mainstream
New feature greatly expands eXtremeDB's ability to share data with systems ranging from mainframes to servers to desktop applications.
McObject has added support for the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) application programming interface (API) to its eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system The new feature greatly expands eXtremeDB's ability to share data with systems ranging from mainframes to servers to desktop applications, and enables developers to create new eXtremeDB-based applications using an open and familiar database API
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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eXtremeDB's new ODBC support is included in eXtremeSQL 3.1, the new version of McObject's SQL embedded database interface, on all platforms, including Linux, Unix, real-time operating systems and Microsoft Windows.
The ODBC driver is also available separately to provide Windows 32bit applications with ODBC access to eXtremeDB databases residing on both Windows and nonWindows operating systems.
The ODBC interface works with all eXtremeDB editions (Standard, High Availability, Transaction Logging and 64bit) and with eXtremeDB Fusion, McObject's hybrid on-disk/in-memory embedded database.
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Based on the Call Level Interface specified by the SQL Access Group, ODBC is a library of functions that lets any ODBC-enabled application connect to any database for which an ODBC driver exists, and retrieve/insert/update/delete data using SQL statements.
Support for this API first became common in Microsoft Windows systems.
However, an ODBC driver manager and ODBC drivers now also exist on Unix, Linux and many other platforms, creating a universe of systems that can potentially share data with eXtremeDB.
McObject's technical implementation of ODBC sustains the benefits of high performance and minimal code footprint for which eXtremeDB is known.
While applications gain access to most ODBC-compliant databases via driver and driver manager software layers, eXtremeDB also exposes the ODBC application programming interface as direct library calls.
This streamlined approach eliminates the driver manager and associated program execution steps, leading to faster performance and smaller code sise.
"In a world of heterogeneous systems, ODBC can exponentially increase the value of database contents", says McObject President and CEO Steve Graves.
"Now users can easily access data stored in eXtremeDB on Windows, Linux, Unix and real-time platforms, and leverage it for a wide range of business purposes".
"In addition, in certain developer communities, such as Microsoft Windows, knowledge of ODBC is so ubiquitous that developers can use eXtremeDB right away with very little learning curve".
The latest version of eXtremeDB is available now from Logic Technology.
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